Well here's chapter 10, finished, completed, over with… I can't believe I actually got to Chapter 10, let alone while keeping to my update schedule. This chapter is short, about 3'400 words, but I felt like ending it there. Thanks for the favorites and follows! Please enjoy reading ^^

Disclaimer-I wish I owned Itac-I mean Naruto

Chapter Dedicated to my awesome teachers and their ability to make any day good (Nanananana Fatman!)

The cool air blew by, rustling Naru's red hair as she stood outside the Academy. Sasuke stood to her left, and Sakura to her right. They had just grouped up, with only a few more minutes until the registrations ended. Sighing, Naru entered the building, walking up a flight of stairs. Her teammates followed behind her, Sakura seeming more confident than before. Sasuke seemed neutral, while also casting her weird glances. They paused at the second flight, staring at the group of students surrounding a door marked as 301. Naru didn't say anything, continuing to walk up the stairs. Sasuke blinked in confusion, before smirking. "Idiots." Sakura sighed softly, frowning. "Can't they see it's a Genjutsu…?"

Naru glanced back at them form one of the landings. "Less competition. Weeds out the weak ones after all."

Silence drifted, a boy suddenly getting pushed out of the crowd of people. He turned to her, followed by two other children. One was a girl with brown hair placed into buns, a scroll on her back, and several others strapped to her waist. Her headband was wrapped around the underside of her buns, framed by her short bangs. One of the boys, the one that got shoved out, looked at Naru with wide eyes. However, due to his unblinking and unchanging gaze, Naru guessed that the saucers for eyes were his real ones.

The boy had black hair in a true bowl-cut, and wore a green spandex onesie, a red sash tied around his waist displaying his plaque with the Konoha symbol. His hands and legs were bound by bandages, and he wore orange weights on his forearms and lower legs. The last boy had long brown hair pulled back behind his head into a low tail. Two strands of hair framed his face, falling over his headband that displayed the leaf symbol. He wore a beige jacket with three straps sealing the front, each an inch thick, as well as dark brown-almost black shorts with the right side bandaged. His hands were also bandaged, but not nearly as much as his teammate. He like his female teammate wore black ninja sandals, while the other male wore orange ones.

The green abomination with caterpillar eyebrows suddenly pointed at Naru, making her fingers twitch. Whenever any of the villagers had pointed at her, it was to mock her. "You, your name is Uzumaki Naruko, correct?"

The Genin's loud voice surprisingly didn't draw the other kids attention, so Naru guessed that the Genjutsu was blocking out those that did figure it out. Sighing, Naru stepped down from the steps, coming to stand beside her teammates. "Yes, I am Uzumaki Naruko."

The boy grinned at her suddenly, showing off blindingly white teeth. Team Seven cringed, Sakura looking about ready to throw up as waves crashed behind the boy. 'What the hell type of monstrosity of a Genjutsu is this?!'

Naru nearly choked as Kurama screamed about his eyes. 'I cannot unsee that injustice…'

"My name is Rock Lee. I want you to be my girlfriend, I promise to protect you with my life!"

Naru's eye twitched, and she nearly activated her Sharingan just to be rid of this menace. "No."

The red head's voice edged on icy, and she turned sharply, dragging Sakura and Sasuke behind her, both still in a state of shock. Lee collapsed to his knees behind her, shivering as a purple aura clouded his head. "So cold…"

Naru was just about to round the platform to another set of stairs when the boy with pupiless eyes in the beige jacket called to Sasuke. "Uchiha Sasuke, correct?"

Sasuke halted Naru's movements, snapping her from the horrifying nightmare that was Lee's 'Genjutsu'. "It's not polite to ask for another person's name without saying your own."

The Uchiha's arrogance leaked into his tone, followed by a smug smirk. Naruko felt her fingers twitch, while Sakura had to hold back a small squeal at how cool Sasuke was being. However, she was a lot more relaxed and controlled than before, surprising Naruko.

The boy spoke again though, ruining Naru's pleasant mood once more. "Hyuuga Neji, Rookie of the Year."

The little redhead felt her hatred for yet another prodigy begin to grow. "Uchiha Sasuke, Rookie of the Year."

Naru scoffed, earning her a glare from her teammate. "Some title that is. It should be changed to 'Bastard with the Longest Pole up the Ass'."

The Uzumaki's crude language made Lee and Neji stare in shock, and Tenten and Sakura laugh. Naru turned on her heal, deciding she wouldn't wait anymore for her team or the weird team to make introductions. Sakura yelped and sped up after her after waving and muttering a 'gomen' to them. Sasuke soon followed, glaring at Naru's back as he stalked up to her. "What the hell Dobe?!"

Naruko ignored her teammate again, her eyes narrowed on the figure standing in front of the actual Room 301. "Kakashi-Sensei."

I~~~~I

Gaara felt her agitated chakra before her saw her. The redhead entered the Exam room, and he felt something akin to relief. He didn't show his emotion though, instead just focusing his attention on the girl. She was pissed off, that much was easy to see. She was glaring at a boy behind her with raven hair, resembling a duck butt. He had an air of arrogance, one that brought the females to pay attention to him.

Naruko however, ignored him as much as she could, her eyes darkening to a purplish hue. He knew enough from Mother to know that her eyes changing color was a bad sign. Mother had growled out something along the lines of 'blasted red eyes', but hadn't elaborated. Gaara only guessed that Mother meant Naru's own demon, the Kyuubi. He paused when he noticed several other teams surround the object of his interest, and scowled. To his siblings and everyone else who dared look over however, it looked like a murderous sneer.

Naru stared at the other teams surrounding them, scowling at Ino as she hung off Sasuke, Sakura trying to ignore her. Naru caught the gaze of Shikimaru, and the boy narrowed his eyes as she glared at him. "Want something, Nara?"

The annoyed Jinchuuriki hissed it out, her mood starting to build tension. From behind the boy came Kiba, Shino, and Hinata. Shino spared a nod to her, and she relaxed some. Her agitation spiked however when Kiba whistled loudly beside his teammates, his dog Akimaru watching the scene play out from on top of his head. "Woah Uzumaki, what did you do to your hair!"

Akimaru yipped in agreement, Sakura and Sasuke freezing. Naru's fingers twitched and she ground her teeth together, her eyes snapping to the boy's. Before she could say anything, or do anything for that matter, a boy with silver hair pulled into a ponytail strode over. He wore glasses and a standard black uniform. Naru's head snapped to him as Kurama growled inside her head, banging against his cage. 'Snake!'

The boy wreaked of the wretched reptile. Naru could accept most snakes, however she didn't trust or like them. She'd keep an eye on this boy.

"You might want to settle down, you are drawing a lot of attention to yourselves."

Kiba only smirked at the boy, noticing the amount of dangerous looks sent their ways. "I could kick all their asses!"

Naru's eye twitched this time, her fingers resting on her scroll. She was so close to shutting the mutt up for good. Kabuto laughed lightly, though the sound was sickingly fake in Naru's ears. "I'd be careful. These Exams are really hard. Actually, this is my Seventh time."

Naru paused to survey the boy, and immediately grew more suspicious. 'Bullshit. This guy is on guard as we speak, and he has several tools littered on his person that aren't exactly easy to use. Not to mention he walks like he's forcing himself to not be graceful.'

Naru had to agree with Kurai, even if it left an acidic taste in her mouth. "Wow, you must be really weak."

Kabuto waved his hands in front of him, a gesture of childishness to force them into security. "Well, I wouldn't say that. I did manage to gather a lot of information from being in the Exams after all."

Naru eyed him critically, before stepping forward. "Do you have anything on Sand team?"

Kabuto paused and stared at her in shock, before he nodded. "Yup. They are really good, especially that red head."

The Silver hairednNinja took out a stack of blank cards. "These cards only react to my chakra, so they are useless to anyone else."

Naru wanted to retaliate that as long as someone could match his signature, they wouldn't need him, but stayed silent. (I don't want to find out the missions so I'll just skip them.) "Alright, the girl Subaku No Temari is a wind type and wields her giant metal fan. She also has a summoning contract with weasels. The older brother, Subaku No Kankuro is a puppet master, not much else there. The youngest, the one with red hair is Subaku No Gaara and he uses Sand as his weapon. All of them are children of the Third Kazekage. Along with this, their Teammate Gaara has managed to come back from every mission without a scratch on him…"

Naruko wasn't surprised, after all his sand shield did help keep him protected, acting as another skin. Sasuke glanced to his team mate, before asking Kabuto for information of his own.

"What about Rock Lee and Naruko Uzumaki?"

Naru scowled at him, and he merely returned the look with a blank one. Sakura bit her lip in worry for her teammates, only for Kabuto to break the tension with a cough. "Alright, Rock Lee, Teammates are Neji Hyuuga and Tenten. Their Sensei is the Green Beast of Konoha, Gai. He is known for his excellent Taijutsu, but has no skill in the Ninjutsu areas. He is also very good at Bukijutsu. He is an orphan."

Kabuto then moved on to his next card, glancing up to Naru when the profile appeared. She knew why. The picture was taken when she still had blond hair, and when it was longer. "Uzumaki Akihane Naruko, Teammates are Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura. Their Sensei is Hatake Kakashi of the Sharingan…"

The ninja gave them all a once over. "Your Sensei is Hatake Kakashi?"

They all nodded, albeit Naru did it reluctantly. "Wow…Anyways Uzumaki Naruko is supposedly the Dead Last, but on her first C Rank mission, turned A Rank, she showed talent in Ninjutsu, Kenjutsu, and Fuinjutsu. Her Chakra reserves are said to be massive, and her parents are unknown. Her only other ties are the Oreshizoku Clan."

There was a stunned silence, before Kiba chose to open his fat mouth. "N-No way, the Deadlast can't possibly be that good! She's just a girl, with tomato hair!"

Something snapped, and Naru took out her seals with a swift swipe of her hand over her scroll, smiling extra sweetly at Kiba as her Kurama chuckled and called for blood. "Care to repeat your words dog shit? Or can I just silence you now? I'm sure I'd be giving Shino and Hinata a gift if I did, after all you never shut you stupid shithole of a mouth."

Kiba's eyes widened and Sakura began to sweat as Sasuke shivered. They both had seen what had happened to Sasuke when he had compared her hair to a tomato, and it wasn't pretty. The seals were only the beginning of the torment. The other occupants didn't know what to think, having never seen Naru when she was her real self. Kabuto seemed shocked at the girl's foul tongue, whilst Shikimaru and Shino were paying extra attention to the red head. Team 9 and Team 8 were dumbstruck, and the rest of Team 10 were trying to figure out what was going on.

Before anyone could say more, or in Naru's case shut someone up in a very unpleasant manner, smoke appeared at the front of the room. "Alright, listen up Maggots, because I don't want to repeat myself! I'm Morino Ibiki, Head of TI and this year's First Exam Proctor!"

I~~~~I

After getting settled into their assigned seats, Naruko gave the Proctor a once over. He had a bandana around his head instead of a headband, the leaf symbol proudly engraved there. Along with this came his dark trench coat, standard black shinobi uniform, and the numerous gray weapons pouches on his form. He had dark tan skin, with a scar running across his face diagonally. Several Chunin stood by his sides, and two Jonin stood at the far front corners of the room. She felt a small snicker exit her lips, twirling a Senbon in his fingers. "At least I won't be bored. And I don't have to worry about casualties…"

Naruko set her hand by her scroll, the senbon being sealed inside as the Proctor spoke up.

"Alright Maggots, now that you are all seated I'll explain the First Exam. I don't like repeating myself so listen closely!"

Ibiki turned and picked up a piece of chalk, and began writing as he spoke. "In a moment the my Chunin officers will pass out tests. There are ten questions in total. Each question is worth ten points each. Your personal score will be tallied by your teams, for a total of 300. Only 200 points are needed to pass, but if even one person gets a 0 in your group, you'll be disqualified. If the exam proctors catch you cheating three times, you're out of here!"

The Chunin instructors began to pass out tests, Naru narrowing her eyes on Ibiki. Normally with tests they would disqualify you automatically when they caught you cheating, so why give you three chances? It was simple, she knew that much. 'They want us to cheat.'

A harsh chuckle echoed in the Uzumaki's head. 'Yup. Now you just have to choose whether to 'cheat' or used your own knowledge, or use our help.'

Naru scowled and looked down at her paper as it was passed to her. She stared at the blank back and snickered softly. 'Shut up Kurai.'

"Alright, you may begin!"

Papers flipped over all around the room, followed by a large number of scratching pencils. Naru ignored everything, clearing her head as she gazed at the answers. She discretely plucked a seal from her scroll and placed it on her thigh. A flood of information entered her head, her surroundings becoming more pronounced as Kurama's chakra mixed with her blood. She bit the back of her pencil, and as it chipped, swept her gaze downward. She caught sight of a Genin scribbling down answers faster than normal. She then fed a bit more chakra into her eyes, her blue contacts causing a minor irritation for a moment, before it was healed. Now she gazed at the Genin disguised Chunin, her Sharingan measuring his chakra levels. 'Yup, Chunin. Which means…'

Naru's eyes scanned down his paper before going to her pencil, a swift glanced that seemed innocent. She then sighed and began writing, acting as though she was annoyed with the test. Too be honest she was actually feeling better after her bad day yesterday. She could hear the thrum of her teammate's hearts, and she could feel the chakra hovering in the room. Along with this, she felt a grainy chakra brush against her dark red chakra. She nearly shivered but held it back as Gaara's sand drifted by her arms, before resting on her wrist.

Gaara could feel Naru's chakra pushing on his own, and he could feel the presence of her blood under the skin of her wrist. He sent a bit more sand, enough to cover the inside of her gloved hand. Her fingers continued to move, creating letters. His hand followed the movements, writing down the answers word for word. He was going to sue Shukaku's eye at first, but when he felt the soft spike in Naru's chakra and the metallic scent filled his head, he decided to try something else. He had done this with several people as a way of torture, and control, but he could also do it the opposite way. She basically had control over his fingers. Whatever her fingers wrote, his would write as well.

The tapping of pencil's on the desks continued, Ibiki surveying the contestants. "Team 1 from Rain, you're out!"

The first team yelped as they were tossed out of the room. Next went a grass team, followed by another rain. Teams continued to be eliminated from the Exam, Ibiki's grin growing. He took a sadistic pleasure in watching the other teams flinch when a certain number or village was called. His gaze rested on a red headed girl though, and he felt his eyes narrow. He could feel a slight rise in chakra, before it vanished. As it did, she sighed and began to write down the answers, her eyes holding forced boredom. He glanced down at the files in his hands, and scanned through them until he found her picture. 'Uzumaki Akihane Naruko, Rookie Genin, Nine Tails Jinchuuriki.'

Ibiki glanced back up at the girl as he read on. 'She supposedly the deadlast, brash, loud, and obnoxious. However, where is all that now? She's calm as can be, hardly even twitching when a team is called for disqualification.'

The Proctor spotted a slight rise of chakra at her hand, and his eye narrowed as he saw sand slip under her glove. She seemed not to mind, instead letting her lips twitch upwards at the corners.

His gaze moved to the Sand boy who was expelling the chakra, and watching as his hand moved in the exact same way as Naur, felt his surprised grow. Uzumaki was helping out a Sand Nin, or pretending not to notice his chakra. Ibiki feared it was the former, and glanced to the Jonin in one corner. The test was almost over, but this was still worrisome. The Jonin nodded, and vanished in a simple Shuinshin.

"Listen up Maggots! By now you must have realized that there is a question missing from the tests. The tenth question will be asked now, but only after I tell you the other rules."

Smirking, the Head of the TI department looked at everyone in the room. "If you fail to answer the tenth question correctly, you'll be unable to participate in the Chunin exams ever again!"

Murmurs broke out, and Ibiki glanced to Naru. He was surprised to find her trying to fall asleep. "You can drop out now though, and try again later. However, whoever drops out fails their team as well!"

The room broke into an uproar of disagreement, to which Ibiki only replied with, "Those other kids were lucky, they didn't have me for a Proctor!"

As soon as he finished speaking, hands started raising and apologies were given out. Teams left in groups out of the room, leaving only a few left, 12 maybe. He glanced to the side, seeing that some of the newest kids, the rookies, were looking ready to raise their hands. "Come on now, don't be shy!"

Ibiki was about to talk some more smack, only for a bored voice, light but harsh sounding, to ring through the room. "Who gives a shit if we can't take these Exams? We'll just have to work harder to get a field promotion, or I know, not give a shit. Hell, I could even torture the answer out of you, you gave no rules about harming the Proctors or assistants for the answers after all you simply said no cheating."

He looked at Uzumaki Naruko, several people staring at her in annoyance, others in respect, and some in utter bafflement. "We are ninja, if ranks mean everything to you then you don't belong here. A Genin can take down a Jonin if trained right, a title means nothing to those who know their strengths and weaknesses."

Ibiki chuckled as her two teammates, the Haruno girl and Uchiha brat, agreed with her. "Do you all agree with this little spitfire?"

When no more teams raised their hands, he smirked. "You all Pass!"

And done. Thank you for reading this chapter, I enjoyed writing it, whilst trying not to eat any more Baked Macaroni….too good. Well this is the end of the First Exam, and on to the Second. The Second Exam will take up all of next chapter, and part of the twelfth. The Preliminaries will be after that, and if you have any suggestions for match ups I'll take them now. Jiraya will also make an appearance in 2 or 3 chapters. Next chapter has Orchi-Teme!

(6-7-16:Corrected Name Errors, Re-Edited Line Format, Fixed Grammar Errors, Fixed Line Breaks, and Cut Paragraphs.)

Well thanks for reading!

Omake-Kurai meets Chibi Naruko-Part I

Darkness surrounded the little girl with short spiky red hair and blue eyes.

She looked around, shivering as she pouted at the barren landscape.

"S-sashi?"

A cackle answered her, a voice sounding behind her.

"Welcome little Kitsune."

Naruko turned, facing a boy with red hair and red eyes.

"Who are you, a friend?!"

The boy froze in his spot, those giant blue eyes capturing him as the little girl's eyes widened.

"Are you Kurama's friend?! I met Kurmaa's friend! Will you help me play a prank on him?!"

The puppy dog eyes Jutsu was activated, forcing Kurai to his knees as he bowed to the adorable girl.

"S-So cute…d-dammit…I'm not evil enough to resist!"

Minato could only sweat drop when he heard his daughter squeal in the middle of the night about 'Pranks' and 'The food of the gods', followed by 'Kurai-Kun!'

The last word made his body go numb as his mind went into over-protective father mode, fire raging in his eyes.

"NO BOY CAN TOUCH MY NARU-CHAN!"

Preview

After Team Seven finished signing their contracts, as well as the rest of the Genin, Anko had told them what the Exam was. They were supplied with one scroll, either marked Heaven or Earth, and had to get the opposite of what they got. They then had to make their way through the forest to the tower in the middle. The catch however, was that they had to make it to the tower within three days with both scrolls, or they'd fail automatically. As Team Seven went up to the stall where they'd be given their scroll, hidden from the other teams of course, they decided that Naruko would take the scroll since she could simply hide it in one of the storage scrolls. They exited their booth, a Chunin Leaf Ninja leading them away from it to their assigned gate, Gate 11.