What's up, here's chapter eight.

Lee: Yoshi, it's time for the Beautiful Green Beast to make an appearance!

Firebird: *Jumps up in surprise* Holy fukin' ass crackers, when the hell did you get here?!

Lee: Firebird, that language is very unyouthful, and I arrived here a few minutes ago.

Firebird: But it takes at least 30 minutes from the front door to get in this room with your speed, unless…

Lee: Unless what Firebird?

Firebird: Did you use the backdoor?

Lee: Hai, it was most youthful of that door to be open as it took me no time at all and I could give a very youthful introduction!

Firebird: Ok. *addressing everyone else in room* who in god's name kept the backdoor open that I specifically said should not be left open!

*silence and cricket chirps*

Zabuza: *Enters threw open backdoor with a plastic bag in hand and quietly closes door not noticing that everyone's watching him*

Firebird: Ahum!

Zabuza: *Jumps up in fright and turns to see it's only Firebird* Oh Firebird, how are you doing this fine day, and did you cut your hair?

Firebird: Cut the crap Zabuza and explain why you left the door open, and if I don't like your answer…

Zabuza: Well you see… it was like this…

Naruto: Oi No-brows, did you get my beef burritos' from…*he sees that Zabuza got caught by the writer of the group* did I say burritos; I meant Tostitos, no Doritos. Jalapeños? I'm fucked, aren't I?

Firebird: Royally, author release: Demonic Creation no Jutsu! *Firebird points a pen at Naruto and suddenly Tora is conjured up in front of Naruto*

Naruto: Hehehehehe, nice kitty. *Cat jumps on his face and mauls it* AHHHHHHHHH, GET THIS LITTLE SHITSTAIN OFF OF ME!

Firebird: *As Naruto fights the other demon cat, he glairs at Zabuza* as for you, I'll just confiscate these. *takes plastic bag of food* as punishment for even listening to one of Naruto's bright ideas, I'm going to eat all your Mexican fast-food right in front of you while I answer the reviewers.

Zabuza: *Kneels down, stairs into the heavens and puts both arms up in the air* NOOOOOOO, NOT MY TOCO BELL!

Guest: I see your point, but she may have some characteristics' of Rukia and Orihime she also has her own to boot to make her well… her. She's not either Rukia or Orihime like Naruto is Ichigo. She's more into the story line than the actual smut itself and she only cares for either her clan's and Naruto's approval. Her clan isn't her clan anymore and Naruto already confronted her about it and doesn't care, though he did rip Kakashi a new one for corrupting her in the first place.

10th Squad 3rd Seat: Thank you for the mass of reviews, it makes me so happy. Thank you for pointing some things out in chapter three but some I'll have to explain. First, the chan suffix not only refers to girls but to little boys as well. And second, at the start Naruto wasn't the best in class so Sasuke referred to him as dobe and liked how irritated he got so despite being one of the best in the class Sasuke still calls Naruto dobe to get under his skin as Naruto try's the same thing by calling him Teme in return, they called each other that for so long that they automatically refer to each other as such, just like how Sakura and Ino call each other Forehead and Pig.

Lightningblade49: Sorry to disappoint but Naruto and Lee will not be fighting in the exams, the matchups will be the same as cannon but with most of the contestants of the elimination round will get their own Zanpaktos'

PEJP Bengtzone V2: If it makes anybody feel any better, Hinata's purvey side will not show up too often, and I will try to tone it down a bit.

Firebird: Well thanks for your reviews and I look forward to more of them in the future. Before we mention the disclamer, I have two announcements.

1. I have a pole up for Zabuza. Who should he be paired up with? After looking through the possible candidates I narrowed it down by four. But if you feel that he shouldn't be paired up with anyone and stay single that option is their too.

2. Fellow author Kigen No KitsuneOokami has a story he wanted me to tell you about,Jack L Antern: Rise of the Pumpkin King. It's about an oc who dies and becomes the new Pumpkin King (Yes, Nightmare Before Christmas's Pumpkin King so expect for him to sometimes break out in song) who has the power to travel to other worlds. Please just give it a try and if you do like it, he would appreciate a review, whether it's criticism, questions, a suggestion or a simple "great job" will do. If you don't, just leave it alone and let him be.

*Sigh* Well while you're here, please do the disclaimer.

Lee: Yoshi, Firebird doesn't own Naruto or Bleach, for if I owned it I would illustrate all of my youthful adventures with Guy-sensei and my youthful teammates.

Firebird: You know Lee; you already have a spinoff that does that already.

Lee: Yoshi, to celebrate I'll run 500 laps around Konoha. *leaves running*

Firebird: I should have never given him all the caramel apple empanadas. Oh and I don't own Taco Bell, thought that I may need to address that.

CH8 Welcome Home, Time for the Chūnin Exams

Team 7 plus Zabuza made it back to Konoha in three hours not needing to go at a civilians pace. They got checked in at the gate by Kotetsu and Izumo, two chūnin that usually end up with guard duty by either drawing the short straw, losing in a card game to a Hyūga, or pissing of Anko to want guard duty as the T.I. (Torture and Interrogation) building and the place she picks up her daily fix of dango is on the other side of the village gate. They looked at the extra and gave Kakashi a confused look, he just shrugs it off and informs them Zabuza seeks asylum in the village, and the party of five leave in the direction towards the Hokage tower.

On the way Naruto convinced the whole group to keep the part about Shinigami in general out of the report, for if someone like Danzō finds out he will do everything in his power to capture either Naruto or Hinata to try to learn the secrets behind the Shinigami and acquire the power himself. And that wouldn't be a good thing.

When they got there, Kakashi handed in his mission report and negotiated on Zabuza's integration in the shinobi ranks. It was decided that after Zabuza is interrogated by one of the top in the field, Anko Mitarashi, that he be on probation for one month at the Namikaze compound, he would be ranked jōnin and by his request to teach at the academy as an assistant for Iruka before getting a team of genin to teach.

When they were done and Zabuza was dragged away by a squad of ANBU, the Sandaime gave the team a week off from missions to do whatever. Kakashi left them to their own devices not the least bit worried about his students.

Sasuke practiced with his spirit weapon, a silver cross in the shape of a pentacle with a silver chain that's small enough to fit on his wrist. When he gathers reishi into said weapon instead of making a traditional bow, it forms into a spider web like cross. When he pulls back the fires instead of one arrow, many smaller arrows fire completely destroying his target, a tree, and the surrounding ones as well. He smirks and fires again to get used to the power behind his weapon.

Hinata is being taught the basics of the Shinigami by Naruto. To start they played a game Naruto called Flash Tag to get her to use Shunpo, taught her the basic katas for his zanjutsu style, and he had her preform Jinzen, or meditates to contact her zanpakutō spirit to get stronger. During the week she did contact with the spirit but has yet to learn her name. Whenever she wasn't doing that she practiced with her reiryoku control, and found out it was easy to do so she moved on to the kidō scrolls that were given to Naruto by Haku. And just as expected she took to bakudō spells easier than hadō due to her timid nature, but still is good at both nonetheless. So far for bakudō she is able to use up to number 61 and up to eight without the incantation, but for hadō up to 33 and up to 4 without the incantation.

When Naruto wasn't teaching Hinata, he was sparing with either Kakashi or Zabuza when he got back with shallow cuts, bruises and a shit eating grin. Whenever Naruto would ask him what happened he would answer, "If I had known Konoha ninja were this kinky, I would have moved here years ago," Naruto never asked that question again due to being slightly traumatized by the image of Anko doing Kami knows what to Zabuza.

Right now it's their last day off and Naruto and Hinata are walking around the village enjoying each other's company. Naruto looks over to his girlfriend and notices she is wearing a set of light blue hairpins that are the shape of six-pedaled flowers, "What's with the new hairpiece's hime?" he asked her out of curiosity.

Hinata looks down at the ground with a sad expression, "Well, they were my last gift to my mother before she passed. I only wear them on the anniversary of her death as a way to remember her, if my father ever saw me with a toy or anything he would take it away saying 'it's unfitting for a Hyūga to act like a child.' So I always carried them but never wore them afraid he will take away the only thing of my mother left, not counting my sister of course."

"Well they look good on you," Hinata blushes at his comment, "And I think you should wear them more often, they really make you look even more beautiful if that were even possible. And your mom would love for you to wear them too," Naruto finished with his foxy smile.

Still blushing, Hinata smiled, "If y-you think they look good. Then I'll wear them more often."

"At a girl," Naruto said, and then he looks behind them and spots a square "rock" with two holes to see through. He sighs in irritation from his unofficial student's antics, "Seriously Konohamaru, a square rock. I swear you are getting worse at hiding every time we meet.

Then the "rock" explodes in smoke, following by coughing at the sound of not one but three individuals; two boys and one girl.

"You added too much gun powder."

"I'm not the one that got it in the first place."

"Well how was I supposed to know it was this powerful?"

When the smoke cleared it showed three kids, two boys and one girl.

One of the boys has short spiky brown hair and black eyes. He also has a small chip in his tooth. He wears a yellow shirt with the Konoha symbol in red, grey shorts, a long blue scarf and a pair of green goggles on his forehead.

The other boy has light brown hair, black eyes that are behind a pair of round glasses and he has a seemingly permanent runny nose. He wears a blue long-sleeved shirt, beige shorts and a pair of goggles.

The girl has She has orange hair tied up, with red elastics, into two very large pigtails. She also has red oval markings on her cheeks. She wears a red tank-top over a pink t-shirt layered at the bottom; her pants are grey and she wears the traditional ninja sandals.

"That's what I expect from my rival," Said the one in the scarf making him Konohamaru.

It's a funny story of how those two met, when Naruto was talking to the Sandaime about the corruption in the academy; how most of the teachers would sabotage his tests and keep him out of lectures. Then out of nowhere a younger Konohamaru challenged the Hokage for his title only to trip on his own scarf. Naruto being the closest one to the kid blamed his lack of footwork on him, only to be grabbed by the collar by Naruto. That is the seen that Ebisu, a tokubetsu jōnin with dark hair and round sunglasses that hide his eyes, wearing the standard Konoha shinobi uniform without the flak jacket and his forehead protector as a bandana on his head. He sees the two and demands that he, in his own words' "unhands the honorable grandson of the Hokage this instant." Konohamaru taunts him by using his status thinking Naruto was just like the rest, but got decked, hard in the face proving him wrong. Later that day Konohamaru sought Naruto out to train him, only to be flat out declined. After continuously asking for one on one lesson from the blond, he gave in and taught him the basic katas for his zanjutsu stances which he picked up with some difficulty. During a break from training Naruto asked Konohamaru why he wanted the old man's title, he answered that he is always referred as "honorable grandson" and not Konohamaru and wanted to be noticed as himself and not to be in the shadow of his grandfather. Naruto told him that was stupid to get recognition instead of getting stronger to protect those close to him, for it was better to be known by the few people that care about him opposed to the thousands of people that don't even know him at all. In the end Ebisu finds them, Konohamaru tries to attack only to be swatted away like an annoying insect, Naruto beating the ever living shit out of the tokubetsu jōnin, and Konohamaru declaring that they are rivals.

"So, who are your friends Konohamaru?" Naruto asked not seeing them before.

The trio gets into a pose with Konohamaru in the middle, the other boy to his right and the girl to his left. "I'm Udon, I like math and stuff," the boy now known as Udon said.

"I'm Moegi, the sexiest kunoichi in our class," Said the girl now known as Moegi.

"And I'm Konohamaru, aspiring Hokage," Konohamaru said.

"And we're THE KONOHAMARU ARMY CORPS!" they finished in unison.

Naruto sweat dropped at their super sentai pose, "Ok," was all he could say. They ended their pose; Naruto snaps pack into reality and asks, "So, what do you guys want?"

As their unofficial leader, Konohamaru asks, "Can we play ninja with you Naruto-nii-san, please?" and they all used the puppy dog eyes no jutsu to seal the deal.

Naruto was still on his date with Hinata, so he didn't want to ditch her to play ninja. And he didn't know how to say no without looking like a complete ass in front of her. But she let out a soft giggle, "Its ok Naruto-kun, I wouldn't mind if we play with your friends," he heard her say, letting out a breath he didn't know he had.

Konohamaru finally notices the girl he is walking with, "Hey boss, who is that?" then he makes the connection, "Is she your, you know?" he holds out his pinky to mean girlfriend.

Naruto blushes and sweats nervously, on one hand he tells him that their secretly dating and he tells someone else and their secret isn't secret anymore painting a target on Hinata's back putting her in danger. On the other hand if he said no then he would hurt Hinata's feelings and she would mad enough to break up with her, and he couldn't lose her. Either way he couldn't win if he said anything.

Luckily Hinata did the talking, "Hi, my name's Hinata and yes we are dating," then she smiles a little sweetly scaring the males of the Konohamaru Army Corps and Naruto a little, the latter being reminded of Unohana-Taichō's smile that promises something worse than death if you don't listen, "And I would appreciate it if you don't tell anyone about are relationship as we aren't ready to reveal it to the public yet."

The two boys of the group are hugging each other and shaking in fear, "O-o-of c-c-course N-Namikaze-sama," They said at the same time.

While Moegi looks in on aw at Hinata, "You're so awesome, when I get older I want to be just like you," she said with stars in her eyes.

Hinata blushes from the praise she isn't used to getting yet, "I-it was nothing, r-really," she said quietly while poking her index fingers together.

The little duo stopped shaking in fear and Konohamaru asks, "So, we still playing ninja boss?"

Naruto gives him a small grin, "Sure kid, whenever you're ready."

And they played something similar to hide and seek, only that not only did you have to find someone but you have to hit them with cardboard kunai or shuriken. As Konohamaru was running to an alleyway he bumps into a mass of black, and then gets lifted by the collar by someone. As he got a good look at the person lifting him up, it's clearly male wearing a black outfit with a circle with one half yellow and the other half red. A hood that has two points at the ends like cat ears with a metal plate with an hourglass carved into the metal instead of the leaf for Konoha ninja. And if that wasn't weird enough he wears some sort of purple makeup on his face and holds some sort of bulky idem wrapped in bandages hanging on his back like Naruto's Zangetsu.

His thoughts of the strange foreigner are broken by said foreigner, "Hey, watch were you're going you little shit!"

Having a blank expression showing no signs of being intimidated says sarcastically, "Wow, a grown man wearing makeup and kitty pajamas. I'm so scared that I might lose my virginity to you."

Said man became red in the face and behind him Konohamaru heard hysterical laughter. When he looked he found a girl about the same age as the boy with green eyes and dirty blond hair held up in four ponytails. She is wearing a single light purple-colored, off-the-shoulders garment that extended to halfway down her thighs, with a scarlet sash tied around her waist. In addition to incorporating fishnet worn over her shoulders and legs, specifically on her right calf and her left thigh, she also wore her black forehead protector around her neck with the same insignia as the boy she is with. On her back is a giant black object that looks like a 2x4 and a Katana with a red hilt and a square tsuba fastened by her scarlet sash. And she is on the ground laughing her ass off muttering the words "makeup", "kitty pajamas" and "virginity" over and over for a few minutes. When she finally calmed down the boy tightened his grip on Konohamaru, "I was going to be nice, but after that comment I'm not going to be so merciful," he said in a deadly tone.

"Stop Kankurō, before he gets here," said the girl and she said he as if she were afraid of whoever he is.

"Relax Temari, I'll teach this punk a lesson faster than you can say sandstorm," said the now identified Kankurō. As he's about to pull his free fist back he's met by the sight of the tip of a giant black and silver blade inches from his face.

"If I were you, I'd let go of the Hokage's grandson," said a cold voice in front of him. He looked over Konohamaru to see Naruto pointing the blade at him.

"And why should I?" Kankurō said arrogantly thinking he can take on Naruto and win.

"Look down," was all Naruto said. Kankurō did as Naruto said and found a katana blade sticking out behind him in between his legs ready to either cut him in half or cut off the very thing that defined him as a man. At first he thought that whoever was behind him didn't have the stomach to do either thing as it was probably a genin and being the sexist he is thought it was a male. But when he looked behind him he went pail to find out it was in fact Hinata who had her hand on the katana ready to cut up his balls whenever she pleased.

In a deadly tone Hinata says to the ninja, "Drop Kono-chan or you'll lose the only thing that identifies you as a man, Puppet Boy."

In his shock, he let go of Konohamaru and said boy scurries over behind Naruto with the two other members of the Konohamaru Army Corps. Kankurō asks in a stutter, "H-h-how?" All Hinata did was point to her Byakugan activated eyes and sheathed her sword along with Naruto doing the same and returning by his side as Konohamaru was let go.

With Naruto being Naruto he decided to jab at the foreigner, "Wow, makeup, hood with kitty ears AND likes to play with dolls. What's next, you have a boyfriend back home."

Kankurō starts to get red again, but before he makes an outburst Temari defends him, "He's not gay." Kankurō thanks her, only for her to add, "He's a gender confused baka."

This caused everyone to laugh hard at the jab his own companion sent him. A dark and depressing rain cloud hovers over him while he has his head down and says in a depressed voice, "Not you too Nee-san." That caused the dirty blond to laugh even harder.

After everyone calmed down Temari got one good look at Naruto and grinned, 'Jackpot,' she thought. She went her way over to our blond hero in a seductive way that would make most boys drool, "So you must be a local, this is our first time here for the chūnin exams and my brother and I are helplessly lost. I was hoping that a strong local, like you, could escort a little foreigner, like me, around this big village so I wouldn't get lost again," she said in her most sexy voice to try to seduce the Shinigami.

But before he can give an answer Hinata is instantly in front of him glaring dangerously at Temari, "What are you doing to MY man, hussy?" she asked.

"What do you mean YOUR man, and who are you calling hussy, hime?" Temari countered.

"At least I don't have my hair up in a ridiculous style."

"Like you're the one to talk, with short hair like that I thought you were a boy."

"Tramp!"

"Spoiled!"

"Skank!"

"Shrimp!"

As they were arguing, Sasuke, with the same outfit but all white with a blue trim and a little gold on it and his Quincy cross on his right wrist. Around his waist is a ninja pouch and what appear to be thin, silver-colored weapons hanging behind him, jumped from the tree he was sitting on and approached the group, "Hn, dobe," he greeted.

Naruto spotted Sasuke long ago that he was in that tree, but being curious he asks, "Teme, why were you sitting on a tree branch while Konohamaru was in trouble?"

"I was training nearby so I took a break. I heard the commotion and came over here. When I was about to do something but you and Hinata had it under control. Then I enjoyed the show," he said as if discussing the weather. Naruto nods in understanding.

When they finally stopped with the name calling, Hinata unsheathes her zanpakutō, "Samurai duel to the death?" she asked.

Temari followed suit with her own sword, "Bring it on!"

But before they can engage, a heavy pressure engulfs them. Not as heavy as Naruto's, but still heavy. And a haunting voice speaks to Temari, "Enough Temari, you and Kankurō are a disgrace to our village."

Everyone turned to where the voice came from and gasped in shock, but not more than Naruto. The person that spoke up couldn't be older than himself and just as short. Has red, short and spikey hair and turquoise eyes surrounded by dark eye rings suggesting he suffers from insomnia. But what surprises Naruto is that he is wearing a white jacket slightly open to reveal a hole in his chest where his heart should be, white hakama pants held by a black sash with the same metal plate as the other two, a pair of black tabi and white zōri for foot wear. A bone like substance on his forehead that looks like a pair of dog ears, on his left side of the fragment is the kanji for love in red written on it, and a katana with a sand yellow colored hilt, circular tsuba and a white sheath fastened on his waist by the sash.

'How is there an Arrancar here, I thought that hollows couldn't come to the mortal realm anymore?' Naruto thought questioningly.

'I don't know how, but I suspect this is the work of someone who knew what they were doing. Otherwise we would have at least heard something about hollow activity in the Elemental Nations by now,' Zangetsu said adding his own two cents.

Naruto thought about the revelation for a few seconds, then his eyes widened in horror, 'Do you think if it's possible that I was reincarnated, that Aizen would be as well? I mean he is the only person capable of something this big,' he asked his faithful companion.

'It seems possible, but not very likely. But be cautious from now on for if it's true he could be anyone, even the people you trust the most,' Zangetsu warned our protagonist.

'Will do old man,' Naruto replied ending their mental conversation.

Temari looked behind her and found the boy and looked at him nervously, "G-G-Gaara, it's not what it looks like,"

Before she could explain herself, Gaara says, "Shut up or I'll eat you," She shut's up. He then addresses to the Konoha shinobi and bows formally, "I'm sorry for the way my siblings behaved in your village. My name is Gaara, or better known as Gaara del Desierto were I'm from. And these are my siblings, Temari and Kankurō. I've heard a lot about you, Kuroi Getsu no Naruto. Despite being a rookie genin you're an A-class shinobi in the bingo books."

Naruto finally broke out from his surprise, "Wow, just turned 13 and I'm already in the bingo books. I don't know whether to be proud of myself or to be more cautious for now on. Anyway these are my teammates, Hinata Namikaze and Sasuke Uchiha. I heard that you are in this year's Chūnin Exams, is that true?"

"Yes, we are here for that event," Gaara replied to the Shinigami.

"Then with luck we'll be seeing each other in the exams," Naruto said in a challenging tone.

"If we ever meet in battle, mother will have your blood and I'll have your soul Naruto Uzumaki," Gaara said as he turned away from the Konoha shinobi he was talking to. Then he addressed his siblings, "Temari, Kankurō, were leaving." And his siblings scrambled in a hurry to leave.


Team 7 is waiting at the training ground at the Namikaze compound for Kakashi, but one of Naruto's clones found him at the Hokage office speaking to the Hokage about something he couldn't get out but he had a good idea of what it is. He expected him to nominate them, or he was going to beat him so hard his future descendants will feel it if he'll have any.

He stopped his musing as a poof of smoke erupted the clearing and out came Kakashi, "Sorry I'm late, but I had to avoid the purple elephants that want to kill me." They just stare at him not believing his excuse, "I'm joking. I never get to use my excuses anymore so I had to get it out of my system whenever I can. Anyway the reason I'm late is that I nominated you for the Chūnin Exams," he gets out three tickets and hands them to his team to take. "Be at the academy room 301 by no later than noon on Monday. And if you feel you're not ready to take the exams, don't come. You now have the rest of the day off, ja ne," he waves lazily then disappears in a poof of smoke.

The three genin of team 7 look at each other and nod to one another as if sending a silent message and went to train for the upcoming exam.


Today is the day of the Chūnin Exams and team 7 enters the academy. They go up the stairs and make it to the second floor and see two genin guarding room "301" from a boy with black hair in a bowl haircut, giant black eyes, and the thickest eyebrows you've ever seen. He is wearing a green spandex bodysuit, tacky orange legwarmers, a red forehead protector worn as a belt, bandages wrapped around both hands and wrists and a normal katana with a tsuba that is oval, with what look like three small teardrops in relief on both the top and bottom end in a blue sheath and is carried instead of fastened to his side like other swordsman. Next to him is a girl with black hair in Chinese-style buns on either side of her head, brown eyes, wears a pink sleeveless blouse, dark green pants and a standers Konoha forehead protector. Naruto noticed that she could have Chinese heritage judging by her attire.

Sasuke was about to call on the apparent genjutsu but Naruto touched his shoulder to stop him and shook his head to not do what he was about to do. Then they headed to the third floor to the examiner room as to avoid attracting any competition so the exams will be easier. As they were heading to the third floor they didn't notice a boy with dark brown hair, fair skin and eyes similar to Hinata's. Wearing a black forehead protector that he wore snugly over his forehead, a khaki shirt, dark brown shorts, blue shinobi sandals, bandages wrapped around his right arm, chest, and right leg, and a sword with a simple cross guard, which is a simple open frame, much like a four-pane window. It has a bronze guard with lavender hilt-wrapping and white sheath. Said boy was glaring at them, or more specifically Hinata.


They arrive at the examining room to find it filled with genin hopefuls, and they didn't look too friendly thus they were ignored. After a few minutes they heard a familiar voice call out to Sasuke, "SASUKE-KUN!" and a purple blur that's Ino attaches to Sasuke, "I missed you so much, and I love the new outfit. It's so stylish."

Before he could tell Ino to get off him a pink blur attached to him, "Get off MY Sasuke-kun, Ino-pig!" Sasuke turned to the other side to find Sakura attached to the other side.

"Why, are you jealous that I got here first forehead?" Ino asked oh so sweetly.

Sakura glares at her rival, "Up yours porker, just get off Sasuke-kun!"

"Make me Billboard-brow!" Ino shot back.

The two kept on arguing till Sasuke had enough, "Will you two get off of me already," and they obeyed like trained dogs. After it quieted down, he heard snickering from his male teammate, "What?" Sasuke growled.

"Why don't you apply for the CRA to rebuild your clan, after all you got a head start with those two," then Naruto busted out laughing at the Uchiha's pail face.

Almost immediately Sasuke answers, "If I'm going to apply for that, it's not going to be with those two."

Another familiar voice rings out from behind them, "Man you guys are in the exams too, this just got more troublesome," they turn around to find Shikamaru and Choji following. Naruto notices that Shikamaru now has a pair of swords strapped to the left side of his waist. They both have a rectangular cross guard with a pattern of cherry petals and lines and in a blue sheath. The only difference is that one is a little shorter than the other hinting that the two are a Daishō pair. He couldn't shake off the feeling that he's seen those swords before but shrugs it off.

"Everything is too troublesome fore you Shikamaru, and I thought that included zanjutsu," Naruto said referring to his new swords.

He just says, "It is, but they won't leave me alone so it would be less troublesome if I just take them with me."

Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Well if you have free time I could teach you the basics so they don't become dead weight, and I know you view that as troublesome as well," Naruto said offering to teach him as he had a hunch as to why, 'Something isn't right, even though I hold the Hōgyoku it's only been a week since I swallowed it and I've only been here so there is no way that this many zanpakutō should be already manifesting.'

'Then we need to tread carefully for I have a bad felling of what is to come,' Zangetsu replied to his master.

Just as Zangetsu voiced his thought an obnoxious voice rang up behind them, "So everyone's here, alright the Rookie 9 is back together baby," everyone turns to find Kiba, Akamaru and Shino approaching the group. But when Naruto got a look at Kiba his eyes widened in shock.

Strapped to his side is a seemingly normal katana with a bronze tsuba with a jagged design to it and in a red sheath. 'Is that Zabimaru?' Naruto questioned.

'I sense the same Reiryoku that Zabimaru emitted back in the day. There's no mistaking it, that's Zabimaru,' Zangetsu told him.

'Well this is just perfect, first theirs Hyōrinmaru, then an Arrancar, Zanpakutōs appearing left and right and now Zabimaru. What's next, the Espada returning to this world,' Naruto thought sarcastically.

'Be mindful of what you say for it may come back to haunt you,' Zangetsu said in his lecture voice.

'Yea yea, whatever old man,' Naruto then cut his conversation when he saw Kiba sneak his way to Hinata while she was reading her book. He started to feel anger rise within him. He wanted to get in front of Hinata to stop the mutt's advances but was reminded that their relationship is a secret affair, so as to not arouse suspicion he would have to trust that Hinata will handle it on her own. But he will step in if Kiba got too forceful towards her. All he can do is watch.

When Kiba got close enough to Hinata he said in his cocky tone, "So Hinata, after I win this exam and become chūnin do you want to help me celebrate by having me take you out to some barbeque 'cause I'm so awesome?"

Hinata just looks from her stories at Kiba with a blank look on her face similar to a one eyed sensei, "I'm sorry Kiba-san, did you say something?" then got right back to reading.

Everyone's jaw, save the male's team 7 who are laughing their asses off, are on the ground. They are speechless, they are wondering what happened to the polite, shy and timid Hinata to act like this. Even the emotionless Shino was curious of this new Hinata that stands in front of them.

Before they could question her, the green guy from earlier shows up with the Chinese girl and who appears to be a Hyūga if the eyes are anything to go by. When they approached the Rookie 9, the green guy says in an energetic voice, "Hello Naruto-kun, I'm happy that your flames of youth haven't been extinguished enough to prevent you from making it to these youthful exams!"

Everyone there, save Naruto, gave the boy a strange look, some even scooted away in fear of the bazar boy while his teammates looked ashamed even though the other Hyūga kept on glaring at Hinata. Everyone went back as they are as he says, "Nice to see you too Lee and I would be betraying my nindo if I didn't make it. Oh and nice show down stairs by the way, you really got rid of a lot of competition that way."

"Thank you Naruto-kun, your youth Knows no bound!" Lee said happy with the complement.

Naruto turns to the kunoichi of the trio, "How's your zanjutsu coming along sense the last time we spared Tenten?"

The girl now named Tenten gave a confident smirk, "I've gotten so good that I'm teaching Lee here and he's come a long way."

"Is that so? Well then it so happens I've been teaching someone as well and she's come very far for a week. Maybe we should have them spar to see who the better master is," Naruto said in a challenging tone and having Hinata come closer.

Before Tenten could accept the challenge the Hyūga boy scoffed, "Pathetic, she's destine to loose so why bother?"

Naruto gave the Hyūga a harsh glare, "And what is that supposed to mean Neji," he said with a growl.

Not being intimidated by Naruto's threatening glare, "She was fated to be sold to servitude along with her equally week sister, they weren't fit to serve the Hyūga clan. Once a failure, always a failure, just like you," he said as if talking about the weather.

Naruto's anger increased and is unconsciously emitting Reiatsu, but it doesn't seem to be affecting any of the people in the group, "You want to take this outside Hyūga-san," he said with practically spitting out Hyūga-san like it was poison.

But before it could escalate an older boy with black eyes behind a pair of circular glasses and long silver hair in a ponytail with a Konoha forehead protector on his forehead. He's wearing a dark purple shirt with a high collar, a white under-shirt, fingerless gloves with armored plates on the back of the hand, a white cloth waistband worn at an angle, dark purple pants, blue sandals, and a shuriken holster on his right leg. "Keep it down will ya," he said making his presence known.

"And why should we four eyes?" Kiba asked

"First it's Kabuto, and second is because look around, you're attracting attention to yourselves," the Konoha ninja said gesturing to the hundreds of ninja participating in the exam, but instead of looking at them as a target they avoid eye contact out of fear.

"To be honest, this is the kind of attention that will help you keep alive," Naruto said to Kabuto in a plain tone, "So Kabuto, you seem to know what you're doing so I assume that you've already taken the exams already."

Kabuto suddenly looks nervous, but not the suspicions kind of nervous, the kind he is embarrassed, "Actually this is my seventh time taking them," he said laughing nervously.

"Man, you must suck," Kiba said.

"Or there're that difficult, troublesome," Shikamaru added.

Kabuto gets out a deck of cards from his pocket, "Despite that I do gather info in the exams as a hobby and record them into these info cards, I even have info on all you guys. And since I'm feeling generous today, you tell me what you want info on and I'll show you," he said.

"Can you show us info on individual ninja participating in the exams?" Naruto asked.

"Who do you have in mind?" Kabuto asked sounding curious.

"Gaara del Desierto," Naruto said.

"And Naruto Uzumaki," Kiba finished wanting to know about his rival for the young Hyūga turned Namikaze's heart.

"Aww, you already know their names," Kabuto said with a fake pout. He got out two cards, put his index and middle fingers on them and channeled his chakra into them revealing the two mentioned person's stats. "Let's see; first we got Gaara del Desierto, the Yondaime Kazekage's youngest son, he's on a team with his elder siblings Temari and Kankurō, Completed an unknown amount of D-rank's, eight C-ranks and… wow, a B-rank as a genin. Little is known about him as far as he's from a foreign country but it says that he came back from all his missions without so much as a scratch on him," this freaked out a lot of the genin, except team 7 of course.

"And Naruto Uzumaki or better known as Kuroi Getsu no Naruto in the A-rank section of the bingo books," Everyone that haven't heard of that looked at Naruto in awe, fear and in one Hyūga's case jealousy. "On team 7 with Sasuke Uchiha and Hinata Namikaze, Completed 40 D-rank's, a…whoa, both a B and an A-rank, the B shortly before he graduated. He manage to go toe to toe and win in Kenjutsu against Zabuza the Demon of the mist and former swordsman of the mist, he's as fast as Konoha's Kiiroi Senkō and his strikes are so powerful that they're rumored to be able to split the ocean in half with one swing. He even has a run on sight order for chūnin and below," Kabuto said in utter disbelief causing the ones overhearing the conversation to be weary of the boy. "Konoha, Suna, Ame, Taki, Oto. Many outstanding genin from various hidden villages are here to take the exams. Well Otogakure is a small village created last year, so there's not that much info but the rest of the villages are filled with protégés and the sort."

Then all of a sudden Kabuto doge a few kunai but a hunching figure that has every part of his body save his left eye appeared in front of Kabuto and swipes at him but misses. He is wearing a large poncho with long sleeves, a snake patterned scarf around his neck, a forehead protector with a eighth note carved into it, a straw raincoat protruding from the back of his scarf, and a large amplifier on his right arm, which he attacked with, that looks like an oversized gauntlet. At first nothing happens, but after a few seconds Kabuto's glasses crack and he doubles over and chucks up his last meal. Sakura and Hinata help Kabuto.

Right to the hunched figures flanks are a male and female figure. The male has spiky, dark hair and dark eyes. He wears a beige shirt with two black stripes and three prints of the kanji for death down the front. His forehead protector had a face guard, resembling the one the Nidaime Hokage but not a part of the forehead protector and is made of a worn-out metal and he has a snake patterned scarf around his neck.

The female has very long black hair, almost reaching down to the ground, tied by a violet ribbon right near the end, and black eyes. She wears a forehead protector, a pale green vest somehow similar to a flak jacket, and snake patterned pants and scarf.

The male with the spiky hair spoke in an overconfident voice, "Put this into your cards, Oto will dominate these exams and nothing is going to stop us!"

Before Naruto could react a poof of smoke erupted from the room and a gruff intimidating voice that made most of the chūnin hopefuls shit themselves said, "SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU LITTLE SHITSTAINS AND LISTEN UP!" When the smoke cleared a mess of Konoha ninja are revealed themselves. But the one in front of them is the most terrifying of them all. Well not to Naruto or Gaara anyway, the former already faced countless hollows and Arrancars in his previous life and the later for being an Arrancar himself.

The man is a large imposing figure, which he complements with a rugged head and face covered with old wounds and scars. Wears a grey button up shirt, black pants with unlike the other people in this universe, steel toed boots, a pair of black leather gloves, a black trench coat over his outfit and his forehead protector worn as a bandana on his head hiding the fact that either he's horribly scared on his cranium or that he's bald, or both.

Said man looked at all the examiners with a blank look that scared the hell out of the participants. After a tense silence, obviously applied on purpose by the bear of a man, he says, "Thanks for waiting. I'm Ibiki Morino, the first proctor of the Chūnin Exams," He points to the Oto team, "You three, I understand that you are eager but while you are in my exam, you will follow my rules. Which includes no combat unless I allow it and even if I do allow it there will be no killing, do you understand?"

The hunched mummy speaks up for the group, "I apologies but this is our first time in the exams and we got a little carried away."

"I'll let it slide this once, but if I catch you disobeying the rules you're out of here. Now each of you will come up one at a time to get your seating arrangement for the first part which is a written exam," Ibiki said to the room full of genin.

Everyone got to their seat and Naruto ended up sitting next to an unnamed shinobi to his left and a flirting Temari to his right, much to Hinata's ire.

"All right before we begin, let me tell you the rules to the test so listen carefully. First you start with ten points, one for each question. But this test uses a subtract system so if you get one wrong you lose a point. Next, your chances of passing are determined by the combined score of your team. The third rule is that anyone ever caught by the testing officers doing something suspicious namely cheating you will be penalized with two of your points subtracted from your total score every time, so there will be some who lose all their points to be escorted out of my testing ground," he said oh so slowly to plant his seed of fear in the genin to weed out the week for the next part.

One of the officers looks at the genin and says to them joining on Ibiki's fun, "Will have our eye on you guys."

"Relies that the week are the ones that get caught cheating, you are trying to achieve your new rank as chūnin so be proud ninjas. Next, the last question will be given out after 45 minutes into the test. And finally, those that lose all their points by either cheat of answer them correctly will fail along with his other two teammates!" he finished making most of the participants nervous. "You have one hour. Begin!" and everyone flipped their papers over and started to scribble away.

When Naruto flipped his, his eyes widened, 'What? These questions can't be answered by a mere genin,' he thought to himself.

'Maybe there is more to it than meets the eye,' Zangetsu suggested to his master.

'Yea, yea, look underneath the underneath. I know,' Naruto replied to his sword and silently scanned the room to find to his confusion everyone cheating while some are called for getting caught cheating five times already. That's another thing, why just get penalized for cheating in an important test if in his past life if he ever cheated in front of Ochi-sensei, he would get your ass kicked from here to Sunday. If there was one thing that Ichigo Kurosaki now Naruto Uzumaki fears, is that woman whenever she's pissed off despite her being an easy going person. And when he thought back to the choice words "Scarface" said it's almost like he was encouraging them to… 'Wait, he wants us to cheat without getting caught. Problem is I don't have a way to cheat discreetly and I can't make Kage Bushins without being noticed.'

'Then why not put your high school education to good use?' Zangetsu suggested.

'You're right, thanks again old man,' Naruto told his partner and started to get to work on the test and making sure that no one other than his teammates to cheat off him, or at the least to make it obvious enough to get the person cheating off of him to get eliminated from the test.

After a good 30 minutes he finishes with only skipping two out of the nine availed questions that he couldn't simply answer, he flipped over his paper and retreated to his mindscape to spar with Zangetsu to not only pass time but to also safeguard himself from Ino's clan jutsus known to infiltrate the mind.

After 45 minutes into the test Ibiki addresses to the ones that are left," O.k. it's time for the tenth question, but before I give it to you I'd like to go over the additional rules," this caused an uproar of confused genin. But this is the time Kankurō decided to come back from the bathroom with a chūnin escort that looked a little off, "Nice timing, did you have fun playing with your dolls?" This got shocked looks from both Temari and Kankurō.

But what Naruto says next will be forever remembered by the ninja in the room, "I didn't know you swung both ways."

The room erupted in laughter from not only the genin but the chūnin officers as well, even Ibiki chuckled a little. The only one not laughing was a stoic Gaara and a red faced Kankurō, "I'm not bisexual!" he roared.

After Naruto calmed down from his laughing fit he replies, "Who said I mean that you're bi, I meant that you like small boys and older man. Tell me, do you prefer to penetrate?"

"NO!"

"So you're a masochists?"

"Yes… I MEAN NO!"

"There's no need to deny it. Just come out of the closet, we won't think any less of you."

"I'm not even in the closet baka!"

"Oh so you already came out already, congratulations."

"When this is over, I'm going to kill you."

"You can try Puppet Boy, you can try."

Before Kankurō could make a comeback to that," That's enough you two, as entertaining as that was we still have a test to finish. So get back to your seat Puppet Boy," Ibiki said while snickering at "Puppet Boy".

Kankurō went back to his seat but on the way he slips Temari the answers while giving Naruto a death glare that would almost make Gaara proud, keyword almost.

"Now before you take the tenth question, you have a choice of whether you're going to take it or not," Ibiki said slowly to scare the genin, but unknown to him they're still snickering at Kankurō. "If you don't take it, your points will automatically reduce to zero along with your teammates," he waited to continue for dramatic effect expecting someone to say something about it. He only heard the sound of snickering from not only the genin, but from the chūnin as well. "If you decide to take it and fail, you will be banned from the chūnin exams for life!" he finished, and to his irritation no one even listen to him. 'How in the hell is it possible that I, Ibiki Morino, can't scare off mere genin,' then he remembered when it stopped working, 'That cheeky little smart ass. He made fun of that puppet kid not only to humiliate him but to not only break the tension that I worked so hard to create during the test, but to also lighten up the mood to a point that it's impossible to add anymore while that moment is still in there head. Well plaid blonde, well played,' he said the last sentence with a slight smile. Not seeing any point to continue the silence he says, "For those of you that are still here, congratulations for passing the first part of the chūnin exams." Some people are confused on what just happened while others are asking about the tenth question, "There was no tenth question, unless you count whether to take it or not the tenth question," he answered for the curious genin, which resulted in out roars of how the other nine were useless. "The other questions weren't useless. They already served their purpose; to test your information gathering skills. But you couldn't do it alone so we had two chūnin pose as examiners to give you some help. But those that cheat poorly fail of course." He removes his forehead protector to reveal a bald head filled with scars and screw holes obviously from being tortured, "Because in time, information is more important in life. And on the field anyone will risk their own life to get their hands on it," he said before he put his head ware back on. "If the enemy or anyone else that's not an allay notice you, there's no guarantee the info will be accurate. If there's one thing to remember, it's that important information in your hands can be a powerful weapon for your comrades and your village," the others asked about the tenth question. And he answers, "The tenth question was the important part of the test, which I'm sure one of you figured out if the stunt he pulled was anything to go by."

"Yea, at first I figured that we needed to cheat to even have a chance to answer these questions. But when I recall my teachings from my days at the academy it hit me. You see I may have not been the smartest student in the class but most of what I learned was from the streets, mainly on how to tell a bluff from the real thing. By the time I turned eight I've been in more fights than a seasoned jōnin, most of which are for food and other necessities that all of you take for granted. And some may look tough like Scarface over there. But if they talk down to you instead of just grabbing the food, then they're nothing but a giant teddy bear. Once I identified the intimidation, I neutralized it by distracting everyone by making them laugh so hard that they forget about their fears and unwarily move on. Humiliating Puppet Boy was just a bonus," Naruto said, but really when Zangetsu suggested that he put his high school education to good use he recalled the fight he was always dragged in by fools that made fun of his hair color. They used intimidation tactics on his so many times that he knew when they were just acting brave to get him to comply, too bad for them it didn't work. He looks over to Kankurō, "And thanks for being a good sport; I'll send you a bottle of lotion as a piece offering."

Caught off guard, Kankurō says in a modest voice, "Oh, it was no problem at all. And thanks for the lotion. I've been running out of some… HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!" until he relisted he walked into a verbal trap and everyone is laughing at him again.

"But there is one more thing I don't get. Why did you fill in your paper with the answers if you knew about the true test?" asked a curious Ibiki.

"Who said I filled the paper with answers?" Naruto asked rhetorically picking up his paper and showing what he written, or in this case doodled which is a teddy bear with Ibiki's face on it, "This is what I did for 30 minutes before dozing off. Pretty good, don't you agree?" he asked the proctor who has a tick mark on his forehead. And it gets bigger as the officers are snickering about the fact that the head of I.T (Interrogation and Torture) is drawn as a teddy bear, but one mean glare from the man shut them up.

Before Ibiki could strangle the blond a giant black ball crashed through the window and erupting in a poof of smoke, when the smoke cleared it revealed a woman with light brown eyes and violet hair in a short, spiky, fanned-ponytail. She is wearing a tan overcoat, which has a pocket on both sides, and complete with a fitted mesh body suit that stretches from her neck down to her thighs. She wears a dark orange mini-skirt, as well as a forehead protector, a small pendant that looks like a snake fang on a thick cord, shin guards, and a dark blue belt around her waist that connects to her skirt that has an appendage-like sash. Behind her is a black banner with "The second proctor of the chūnin exam, the sexy and still single Anko Mitarashi". "Heads up, boys and girls, this is no time to be celebrating! I'll be your next proctor. Anko Mitarashi. You ready for the second test? Good! Then let's go, follow me!" the woman said, then got a look at Naruto's drawing and is now rolling on the floor laughing her ass off much to Ibiki's ire and shame.

After about ten minutes Ibiki asks Anko when it looks like she's calming down from her laughing fit, "Are you done yet?"

"Haha Hold haha on. Haha can't haha breath," she says in between laughs. Once she calms down she finally gets a good look at the remaining genin, "78? Ibiki, you left 26 teams? This test was too easy this time!" she yelled.

"Or we had a lot of outstanding ones this time, especially that blond smart ass," Ibiki countered.

"Thank you Scarface," Naruto called out getting Anko's attention.

"He not only called you that, but he has the balls to draw you as a teddy bear. I like him already," Anko said making Ibiki pail at the thought of those two together.

"Just get them out of here, I need to vent," he said referring to interrogating the latest prisoners.

Anko gave a mocking salute, "Will do Scarface," making Ibiki groan in displeasure, "If it makes you feel any better, the teams will be cut in half," she added to reassure her partner in I.T. Then she looks at the genin, "Ok, follow me to the next testing ground. And Naruto was it?"

"Yea, what is it," said genin asked.

"Can you do Kurenai as a black widow?" she asked making the others face fault.

Naruto just says, "Sure, but I'll have to give it to you after the exams."

"Fare enough," She said and they ventured to the next portion of the exams unaware of the dangers ahead for team 7.


Finally, I'm finished. Sorry it took so long, ha a mean case of writers block. But hopefully I made up for it by posting this long chapter. And if you think I was a little mean to Kankurō, I just had to get the puppet jokes out of my system. So this is the worst of it for Kankurō. Besides I'll have a pedo-Hebi sennin to make fun of in the next chapter, enough said. See you next time.