Chunin Exams
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, I only own my OC. (Female OC)
Summary: "Death, it's a funny thing really. There are people that fear the cold harsh whisper of death, while others welcome it like an old friend. Whenever I ever thought of someone dying, I always felt scared. I thought I was scared of dying, until I actually died."
Note: All information that I have I have gotten from Narutopedia, I hope I do not offend people by getting some information wrong! And if I do, I apologise in advance.
Also the Shīringu is mine alone, it belongs to me!
NARUTO
For some reason we had been called back to the bridge the next day, I already knew why, we were going to undergo preliminary tests because Iruka is being irrational. I watch as Sasuke leans against the rails as he always does, and Sakura hovers close to him. While me and Naruto stand a little bit away. Naruto was pouting because we didn't get to train, but I reassured him we would.
Sakura was twitching like mad and sighing constantly. I send her a side glance, "If you have something to say, say it Sakura." I say with crossed arms.
"Why does Kakashi always make us wait when he's the one who called us?!" Sakura shouts in frustration.
Naruto nods his head, "Yeah, yeah!"
Sakura continues her rant, "How is he going to compensate a girl who woke up late and had to give up blow drying her hair?!"
"I woke up late, so I couldn't wash my face or brush my teeth!" Naruto complains.
I send Naruto a look, "Now that's disgusting Naruto."
Naruto grins at me sheepishly.
Sasuke scoffed while looking even more bored than usual, if it was possible.
Suddenly, there was a noise, we turn to see it was Kakashi, "Yo, I saw a black cat and had to use a different path." Kakashi says with a grin under his mask.
"LIES!" Naruto and Sakura shout.
Kakashi just dismisses their shouting, "I'll get to the point. I just recommended all of you for the Chunin exams, so here are your applications." Kakashi takes out three passes.
I felt my stomach drop slightly, "Urm sensei, there are only three passes."
Kakashi smiled at me from under the mask, "I know. People think that it is unfair for there to be four members in Team Seven, so only three of you can enter."
I nearly stopped breathing, Sarutobi promised that I would be in team seven and allowed to participate. But this would mean that one of us couldn't go forward.
"I'm definitely doing it." Sasuke says taking one of the passes.
"Me too!" Naruto says taking the other pass leaving Sakura and me to decide who gets it. I look at her feeling a bit guilty. I wanted to stop Sasuke getting the curse mark, but Sakura needs to go with them because that when she starts to mature, and nothing else will push her to that.
I groan, "You take it Sakura."
Everyone look at me in shock, "What!" Sakura shouts.
"I said take it, I can participate another time." I say looking at the floor crossing my arms, I wanted so badly to take the application, but Sakura needed to be in that team. Maybe I can convince the Hokage to put me as a guard.
"Then neither am I."
My eyes widen and my mouth drops, Naruto had just said he wasn't going to participate!
"Naruto, don't be stupid, you want to do this." I say to Naruto.
Naruto shakes his head, "We're a team, if one of us can't advance, then we all don't."
"Naruto..." I whisper.
Naruto hands his application back to Kakashi, "Take it sensei." Naruto says.
As if I wasn't shocked enough, Sasuke also hands his application in, "Sasuke!" I say in surprise, even Naruto and Kakashi looked surprised.
"It's like the dobe said." Sasuke says giving back his pass.
Kakashi smiled, "You pass."
Me, Naruto and Sasuke look at Kakashi with confused looks, what did we pass? Kakashi takes another application out of his pocket and hands one to me, Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura.
"B-but I don't understand, you said that one of us couldn't enter?" Sakura says in disbelief. We all just nodded just nodded our heads.
"It was to test your teamwork." Kakashi answers. But he was happy that I was the only who volunteered to not enter, because he reckons that if Sakura volunteered, the guys wouldn't have batted an eye lid.
"Of course, just because you've been recommended doesn't mean you have to take it." Kakashi says making us come out of out shocked stupor.
A grin appeared on Naruto's face, "Yes! I love you Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto jumps at Kakashi and hugs him around his waist.
"Cut it out! Get off me!" Kakashi says having trouble getting Naruto off him. Once he gets the blonde off him Kakashi speaks, "Only those who wish to take it are to sign the application and five days after that, get to school by 3pm and go to room 301. That's all."
The grin on Naruto's face got bigger, if that was even possible, he hold up the application and looks at it, "The Chunin Exams."
Naruto continued this trance even when walking with us, "There must be a lot of strong guys." Naruto says as he imagines being Kankuro and Sasuke.
"Well we know the Genin from Suna will be there." I say rubbing my chin. I was trying to remember who was there; I know all the rookies are there. Then the Sound Ninja, Rain, Grass and a couple of unimportant characters that the anime never went into detail about. I know Kabuto was entering making me angry, sly bastard...
"I wonder if Kiba and Shikamaru will be there." Naruto mumbles still looking at his application.
NARUTO
I was walking home like normal, as I always do after training when I felt something weird. I stopped walking and look around; the park was abandoned when it never usually was. There was always children playing on the swings or playing ninja. I wasn't a fool, I knew what was happening.
Iruka, being an oversensitive and overbearing person, was testing us. He was going to see if we were strong enough to join the Chunin exams, well he's going to get a shock...
I felt a presence behind me. I take a kunai and throw it at the person behind me; I quickly turn around with my Sais at the ready. I saw that it was a 'Grass Ninja'.
"What do you want?" I ask the Grass Ninja lightly as if I didn't just throw a kunai at him.
The Grass Ninja doesn't answer me, and attacks. I jump out of the way and slashed when he got near me. The person poofed away, it was a Clone. I stand there confidently, "You really think that would work on me?" I say with a smirk.
I look in the direction of the tree where I felt the presence of Iruka, "Come out Iruka, I know you're there."
I heard a muffled gasp.
The Grass Ninja appeared in front of me, but then dissolved into Iruka, "How did you know?" Iruka asks still looking surprised.
"You didn't cover your chakra signature, an amateur mistake." I say flatly.
Iruka's eye twitched.
"Iruka, I know you're concerned about us, especially Naruto." I say to him.
Iruka looked to the floor.
"But you need to learn to let go." I say.
Iruka shook his head, "You're only kids! You shouldn't even be thinking about the Chunin Exams!"
I observe Iruka. He was never one of my favourites in the anime, I always thought that he was too overbearing and wouldn't let Naruto go. Maybe he saw himself in Naruto or he thought of Naruto as his child, but to be honest, I don't care. He seemed to be upset; maybe Kakashi aggravated him too much. Am I the last person he came to? Is that why he is frustrated?
"Am I the last?" I ask him.
Iruka's eyes widen, "How do you know?"
"You're frustrated and it seems odd that you would see if I am ready even if you didn't know me for very long." I answer him. I had only entered the Academy a month or two before the final test. So there was no way that Iruka could have a bond with me or even know me. He didn't even know that I held back a lot in the Academy.
Iruka smiles at me, "Very sharp."
I return the smile, "I take it I pass then?"
Iruka sighs but nods nonetheless, "Yes, you pass."
That's when I decide to walk away, but I didn't get too far before Iruka shouts, "How did you know about the test?!"
I turn my head, "A little birdy told me." More like the anime and Haku, as soon as he was dismissed, he found me and told me about the test. He was such a kind Onii-chan.
NARUTO
I made it back to mine and Haku's apartment, when I closed the door I saw Haku in the kitchen with an apron on, "Haku, what are you doing?!" I ask alarmed. Let me tell you something, Haku cannot cook. It turns out that Zabuza did all the cooking because Haku was so bad. Haku could literally make things that could poison someone.
Haku sees me and smiles, "Hello imouto! I just decided to make dinner for tonight!"
I had to stop myself from shivering, "I-I can cook Onii-chan!"
Haku shakes his head, "You've got you keep your strength up for the Chunin exams."
I felt like cursing, if I ate his food, I wouldn't survive until the Chunin exams. People will wonder why I had just dropped dead, and Haku will feel guilty, I don't want to die for the second time!
"B-but don't you have a mission tomorrow?" I ask nervously, I really hoped this worked.
Haku waved me off, "It's fine." He then picks up the pan and scoops out two blobs and puts it on the plates. He picks up the plates and places them on our table, "Dinners ready!" Haku says taking his apron off and sitting down.
I repress a violent shiver and sit down opposite Haku. I look at the blob of food and then at Haku, who was smiling at me. He looked so innocent but so lethal with his cooking, I feel so sorry for his future wife, she had best do all the cooking otherwise they will all die.
"Go on, try it." Haku urged me.
I slowly pick up a chopstick and cautiously bring some of the slop to my mouth; I was mentally preparing myself for the revolting taste. As soon as I placed it on my mouth I nearly gagged at how bad it tasted. There was too much salt, and was that... soap?
I swallow the blob and smile at Haku, trying not to throw up, "It's delicious!" I say with a strained smile. If I told him it was bad, he would get upset and have that adorable pout that all his fangirls seemed to love.
Haku smiled radiantly and began eating his own portion, "Zabuza didn't let me cook often, but when I did make it, it made it more special."
I nod stiffly, reluctantly taking another bite, "Then how about you cook on special occasions, to make it even more so." Hopefully this would work, that way I wouldn't be subjected to eating his cooking every night, and it was only occasional.
Haku nods enthusiastically, "You cook so well imouto; I just wanted to show you how much I appreciate that."
This time, my smile was genuine. Haku had really come a long way. He wasn't as depressed and he went out more. He, Kakashi and Iruka were really close friends. Haku looked up to Kakashi and would sometimes ask him for advice. Haku even had fangirls, the girls that he teachers love him, and he had fangirls in different ranks too, some ANBU, Jonin and other Chunin. As soon as the fangirls found out I was living with him, all hell nearly broke loss. I now have girls glaring at me, and I didn't even know them! In a short space of time, people had begun to warm to him and make him feel welcomed.
"Thank you, Onii-chan." I say to Haku.
"Anything for my imouto." Haku replies.
NARUTO
Over the past five days I have been practicing, my healing, Justus, Taijutsu, Genjutsu, sealing, everything, and it's all thanks to Haku. With his help I had improved on my speed and he taught me how to use senbon needles, he made me shoot targets to hit their vital points. I had even learnt more sealing Jutsus from the scroll Yukiko gave me.
I now stood with Naruto and Sasuke, we were waiting for Sakura.
Speaking of the devil, here she comes now, "Sakura-chan you're late." Naruto says with a smile.
Sakura looks very nervous, "Sorry."
Anyone could tell that she didn't want to be here. Obviously Sasuke's words about her being weak were playing on her mind.
"Good morning, Sasuke-kun." Sakura greets the Uchiha, but not with as much enthusiasm as she usually does.
Sasuke nods his head, "Hn."
"Let's get moving people!" I say marching to the door. Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura follow me. When we enter the room and climb a set of stairs, we see a big crowd of people. As we go close to the front I saw Lee get kicked back and Tenten hold on to him.
"You're trying to take the Chunin exams with that kind of level?" One of the Chunin taunts Lee. I smirk inwardly; they would have been swept under the table. No one can beat Lee in Taijutsu. Maybe I could train with him in the future...
"Maybe you should quit kids." The other Chunin taunts.
"You're still kids." The first Chunin says.
"Please let us through." Tenten asks nicely. She tries to walk forward but is knocked back and punched in the face, the Chunin laugh at her. I'm surprised that Neji didn't do anything, his teammates were getting hit. But then again, they were doing it to keep a low profile.
I look at the sign, it said room 301, but I already knew that it was Genjutsu.
We walk forward, "Let us pass." Sasuke says with his hands in his pockets.
"It would be nice if you undo the Genjutsu around the sign too, we want to go to the third floor." I say looking bored.
"What's that girl talking about; we are on the third floor?" Someone said in the background.
"Oh? You noticed?" The Chunin says with a frown.
Sasuke turns his head to Sakura, "Sakura, how about you? You should've noticed first." Sasuke says.
"What?" Sakura says looking a bit surprised.
"Your analysing skills and Genjutsu is the best in our squad." Sasuke says.
"Sasuke-kun." Sakura mumbles but then straightens her back and says with more confidence, "Of course I noticed it first because this is the second floor."
Naruto nods his head.
The Genjutsu lifted itself, revealing that it was in fact floor 201.
A Chunin smirked, "You're pretty good, but just being able to detect it isn't enough." The Chunin attacks us, but Sasuke gets ready. However, they never met as Lee gets in the middle and stops the two. Lee grabs the Chunin's foot while Lee grabs hold of Sasuke's arm.
Lee breathes and lets the two go. The Chunin acts as if nothing happens and Sasuke glares at Lee with hate.
"Hey, you broke the promise. You're the one who didn't want to gather attention by doing something that stands out." Neji says with a scolding tone to his teammate.
"And saying this makes you stand out." I say sarcastically. Neji turns to glare at me, which I return fully.
"But..." Lee says and then turns to look at me and Sakura.
Lee walks over to where I and Sakura were standing, "My name is Rock Lee. You are Sakura-chan are you not?"
"Huh?" Sakura says confused.
"Let's go out together! I will protect you until I die!" Lee proposes with a blush on his face and his thumb in thumbs up position. His teeth glisten in the light... how do they do that?!
Sakura sweat drops, "No way..."
"What?" Lee asks dishearten.
"You're too unique for my tastes." Sakura says slowly, still in shock.
Naruto started to laugh. I would have starting laughing too, but Lee turned to me, "It is the angel that saved me!"
I felt my eye twitch, angel? I wasn't an angel.
He grabbed my hand, "Will you please be my girlfriend?!"
"What?!" Naruto shouts.
Sasuke tenses and glares at Lee.
"But, he just..." Sakura says in disbelief, man this boy bounces back fast!
"I'm sorry Lee; I'm not interested in dating. I want to have a carer first." I answer honesty; if I wasn't on a mission I could actually consider having a date with him. I felt so sorry for him, and I always thought Sakura was kind of bitch for rejecting him.
Lee looks crestfallen, "May I at least know the name of my angel?"
I smile at him, "I'm no angel, my names Akemi."
Lee nods and lets go of my hand. Sasuke smirks while Naruto sighs in relief. Sakura began giving weird look to Lee.
Neji and Tenten walk forward, "Hey, you there. What's your name?" Neji calls to Sasuke.
Naruto looks angry, he was angry because Sasuke was getting all the attention.
"You're supposed to identify yourself before you ask." Sasuke responds back coolly.
Neji glares at him, "You're a rookie, aren't you? How old are you?"
"Why do you ask if you already know?" I ask back, which in return I got a glare from the Hyuuga.
"I'm not obligated to answer that." Sasuke answers the Hyuuga.
Neji glares harder, "What was that?"
Tenten giggled, dammit Tenten too! Can no one resist the boyish and emo-ish charms of the Uchiha, besides me and Hinata of course, she was Naruto's.
"And what about you?" Neji asks me.
Dammit why are people asking me?! I shrug at him, "You'll find out."
Neji scoffs angrily.
Sasuke walks away and I trail behind him ready to walk through the doors. "Naruto, Sasuke-kun, Akemi, let's go!" Sakura says more excited for the exams now.
"Let's go!" I say with a grin on my face.
We walked up a flight of stairs and we were near the exam room. We were walking in a line going: Naruto me, Sakura and Sasuke. I was waiting for the moment when Lee would appear and challenge Sasuke. I must say I was surprised when Lee asked me to be his girlfriend, I thought he'd just ask Sakura.
"You there with the sharp eye, wait!"
That was Lee; I stop and turn around along with everyone else. Sakura winced when she saw that Lee had followed them, Sasuke looked annoyed and Naruto just looked confused.
"What do you want?" Sasuke asks with his hands in his pockets.
"Will you fight me right here, right now?" Lee asks Sasuke.
Sasuke glares at him suspiciously, "Fight you right here, right now?"
"Hai!" Lee says. Lee jumps down from the balcony so he is a few feet away, "My name is Rock Lee. You're supposed to identity yourself before you ask someone's name, right?"
"Oh looks like someone was actually listening to you Sasuke." I say with a grin, Sasuke glares at me.
"Sasuke Uchiha." Lee says.
"So you already know my name." Sasuke quirked his eyebrow at Lee.
Lee gets into a fighting position, "I would like to fight you. I would like to see how my moves will do against a descendant of the genius Ninja Clan." Lee says.
I groan, "Don't inflate his ego!"
"Also..." Lee says looking at Sakura.
Sakura shivers at his stare.
Lee blushes, "Sakura-san, I love you."
"NO!" Sakura screeches, "I hate those eyelashes, your fuzzy hairstyle, fuzzy eyebrows and everything about you is too unique for me!"
"Says the one with pink hair." I mutter to myself.
"You're an angel." Lee says not hurt by the things she said. Lee then sent a kiss her way. Sakura screeched as they got closer, which she then dodged.
"Very nice, how about this?" Lee says before sending hundreds of kisses her way. Sakura continues to screech as she dodged them.
When the assault was done, Sakura shouts, "Stop throwing weird things at me! I had to dodge those like my life depended on it!"
Lee looked slightly disheartened, "You don't need to avoid them that much..."
"Yeah Sakura stop being so mean." I say with a small grin.
Lee blushes at me, "Thank you Akemi-chan!" Lee sends a kiss my way, and I wouldn't have dodged it, but Sasuke got in the way and cut the heart up, "If you want to fight than let's fight." Sasuke says with smirk.
I pout, "That was mean Sasuke."
Sasuke just scowled at me.
"Did you really want to be kissed by him?" Naruto whispers in my ear.
I shrug, "I'm sure he's a nice guy."
"You're challenging me knowing my last name is Uchiha. I'm sorry to say this, but you are ignorant. So you want to see what this Uchiha is capable of fuzzy eyebrows?" Sasuke says, more like threatens.
"Please." Lee says getting ready for an attack.
"I bet fifty yen on Lee." I say flatly.
"What?! How could you bet against Sasuke-kun?!" Sakura screeches at me.
I ignore her, "Deal or no deal?" I say.
Sakura grumbles, "Deal, besides Sasuke-kun will win anyway."
"Wait!" Naruto yells.
We all turn to look at him,
"I'll fight the fuzzy eyebrows guy." Naruto says seriously.
"Hey don't but in!" Sakura hisses.
Naruto takes a step forward, "Don't worry, it'll only take five minutes."
"I don't want to fight you. I want to fight and Uchiha." Lee says.
Naruto grumbles, "Geez, everyone is annoying me with 'Sasuke this and Sasuke' that!" Naruto runs at Lee and attacks. Naruto had his fist poised to hit Lee, but Lee just nudges Naruto's arm, sending Naruto's balance off. Naruto twists his arm and body so he can kick Lee, but Lee ducks and swipes his arm sending Naruto into the wall.
"Naruto-kun!" I shout to him, I wonder if he was okay.
"I will declare this now. You cannot defeat me because I am the strongest of Konoha Genin right now." Lee announces.
This peaked my interest. "I'll fight you." I say taking a step forward.
"I want to fight an Uchiha; I do not want to hurt you." Lee says shaking his head.
That made me annoyed; he really thinks he can hurt me? Yeah right, I'd kick his ass.
Sasuke smirks, "Interesting, I'll accept."
Sakura looks at the clock, "Don't Sasuke-kun; we only have thirty minutes to turn in our applications."
"Don't worry." Sasuke dismisses, "It'll only take five." Sasuke charges at Lee. As Sasuke goes to hit Lee, Lee disappears and then flashes behind Sasuke going to kick him. Sasuke dodges Lee's attack narrowly, Lee uses his hands to spin himself and aim a kick at Sasuke again. Sasuke holds his arms to dodge, but Lee aims and kicks him in the cheek sending him across the room.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura shouts in worry.
Sasuke stands up and uses his Sharingan, I sigh. That wasn't going to work. I wonder if the Shīringu would work. I heard Sakura gasp and then it clicks, she wasn't there when Sasuke awakened his Sharingan.
Sasuke charges again, but when Sasuke was close enough, Lee kicked up and kicked Sasuke in the chin sending him up into the air.
"He doesn't use Genjutsu, he only relies on Taijutsu." I say.
Sasuke's eyes widen while Lee nods his head. That's when Naruto wakes up to see Sasuke struggling against Lee. For every move Sasuke did, it was blocked and returned twice as fast by Lee.
"You may not be able to believe it right away." Lee says as he flashes behind Sasuke. Sasuke swipes his arm to hit Lee, but Lee jumped back quickly.
"I hear that the Sharingan has the ability to see through Genjutsu, Taijutsu and Ninjutsu. You can definitely see through Genjutsu and Ninjutsu that requires forming seals and kneading chakra. But for Taijutsu it is a little different. " Lee says.
"What do you mean?" Sasuke asks.
"Even if you can see my movements with your Sharingan, your body does not have the speed to keep up with mine." Lee explains.
Sasuke grit his teeth.
I would have insulted Sasuke at this point for not even known that, but I couldn't talk, I didn't even know what my Shīringu did, and no one was there to help Sasuke since they were all dead...
"Do you know that there are genius-types and hard working types among the strong?" Lee asks, "If your Sharingan is a genius-type that carries the blood of Uchiha, I am the hard working type that constantly improved my Taijutsu."
Sasuke charges at Lee again and throws a punch at Lee, who in turn dodges it. Lee continues to dodge his attacks while taunting him, goading him and making him angry.
I look at the clock, we only had ten minutes. This was taking longer than it did in the anime. I didn't want to risk us being late. Sasuke was knocked to the ground again, and this time, Lee was going to attack Sasuke. Sasuke closed his eyes and waited for impact, but it never came.
Sasuke opened his eyes and saw that I was standing in front of him holding Lee's leg.
"Akemi-chan!" Naruto shouts.
Lee looks at me in shock, "What are you doing?"
I turn my head sidewards to look at Sasuke, "We have ten minutes left before we are classed as late."
Sasuke glares at me. "Get out of my way."
I just raise an eyebrow.
"Akemi-chan, I will ask you to move, I do not want to hurt a flower like you." Lee says to me, it was meant to be a compliment but to me it was an insult.
"What did you say?!" I yell as I kick Lee in the face sending him flying.
Both Sasuke and Naruto look at me in shock.
Lee gets up in shock, "I dare you to say that again!" I shout at him in anger.
Lee waved his arms, "I-I didn't mean anything by it, it's just you are a female and -"
"Sexist bastard!" I shout and punch him in a flash sending him into a wall again.
"Akemi-chan... just..." Naruto mumbles in shock.
Sakura nods her head, unable to speak.
Sasuke glares at me and stands up, his pride and ego wounded.
I look at the clock, "I'm sorry Lee, but we really must go." I say walking away. When I get to Sakura, I look at her. "You owe me fifty yen."
Sakura twitches, "I owe you nothing!"
Naruto walks over to us, "That was amazing Akemi-chan!" Naruto cheers.
I grin, "Thank you."
Naruto looks to Sasuke, "Obviously the Uchiha Clan wasn't all that."
Sasuke grit his teeth and glared at Naruto.
As we were walking away Sakura asked, "I wonder why he was wearing bandages."
Naruto waved it off, "Probably a fashion statement."
I shake my head, "It's not that."
The team look at me, "Then what reason is it?" Sakura asks.
"He covers up his scars and bruises from training." I explain to them, "He trains a whole lot harder than any of us."
Sasuke looks at me, "Explain."
"He doesn't have much chakra." I say, not really caring that I was giving away secrets, "So he trains every day, a lot more than any of us to catch up."
Sasuke smirks, "This is getting interesting."
"Yeah!" Naruto agrees.
Sakura just nods her head.
"Let's go, Naruto, Sakura, and Akemi." Sasuke says with a determined look.
"Who died and made you queen?" I mumble under my breathe but follow nonetheless. After walking for a little bit, we all finally made it to the floor that said 301. Outside the door was Kakashi.
"I see. You've come too, Sakura." Kakashi says looking at his pink haired student.
The four of us look at Kakashi in confusion, why did he say that? Would we have made it through the doors if Sakura wasn't here? Does that mean we are going to stay in a four-person team? I bloody hope so or I'm suing.
"What do you mean, Kakashi-sensei?" I ask him.
"It means now you four can register for the Chunin exams." Kakashi says, "Originally, only three person squads can apply for this exam. However, the Hokage had allowed four people for this team."
Sakura protests, "But Sensei, you said that the decision to take the exam was our choice."
"Yes, I said that." Kakashi nods his head.
"Were you lying?" Sakura asks.
Kakashi looks out the window, "Yes, I was. If I said that, Sasuke and Naruto would probably forcefully convince you take the exam, Sakura." Kakashi turns to look at Sakura.
Naruto nodded his head and Sasuke made a noise. Sakura looked at them a little nervously but said nothing.
"Even if you didn't have the will to apply, if Sasuke asked you, you would attempt to take the exams half heartedly, for Sasuke's sake and as well as Naruto's." Kakashi says looking impassive as always.
Sakura's eyes widen, "If it had only been Sasuke, Naruto and Akemi, they wouldn't have been allowed to enter?"
Kakashi nods his head, "I would have stopped them from entering."
I turn to Sakura with a smirk, "Glad you came now?"
Sakura nods her head slightly with a small grin. Knowing that they couldn't enter without her made her feel more important, but it also made her feel anxious. Would they have hated her if she didn't want to enter? Would they resent her? She was now glad that she had decided to come.
"However, since you guys came here on your own free will, Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and Akemi, I'm glad you came. You're a team I'm proud off." Kakashi says with a smile under his mask.
Kakashi steps aside, "Now them, go on."
We walk forward and open the door that Kakashi had previously been blocking, "Okay! Let's go!" Naruto says excitedly. We all stand in front of the door and Sakura and Sasuke open the door, we then walk in.
When we walked into the room, I couldn't help but notice how many people there were. "W-wow!" Naruto says in awe.
Sasuke glared at the potential enemies and Sakura looked extremely nervous, "W-what's with... this?"
There was hardly any space in the room and everyone seemed to looking at us, I glared at a couple of people who were looking at us. I hear Sakura gulp loudly.
"Sasuke-kun, you're late!" Ino says running over to us and hugging Sasuke.
"Oh great." I mumble under my breath; as if having one fangirl wasn't bad enough, there was another one.
Ino jumped on Sasuke's back, hugging him, "I thought I'd be able to see you for the first time in a while so I waiting in excitement."
Sasuke glared at her sidewards as his form tensed, he looked like he wanted to throw her off his back, which to be honest I couldn't blame him.
Sakura glared at Ino, "Get away from Sasuke-kun! Ino-pig!"
Ino jumped off Sasuke's back, "Oh my, it's Sakura. Your billboard brow hasn't changed, eh... ugly!"
"What did you say?!" Sakura shouts.
I sigh, "I swear, can't you two be civil."
Ino turns to look at me with a smirk, "Oh I didn't see you there, shorty."
My eye twitches and I take a few deep breathes, I will not give in, I will not give in. I will not pummel her into the ground.
"What's up with this?" Shikamaru says walking over to us with Choji in tow.
"Shika-kun!" I say with a smile, it had been a while since I had seen him.
Shikamaru sees me, "Oh you're here too. I guess you're doing the troublesome exams, too?"
"Yep!" I say with a smile, "I'm surprised you're here though with..." I look at Ino at the last part.
Shikamaru sighs and nods his heads, "Me too."
I turn to Choji, "Sup, Choji!" I say with a small wave.
Choji smiles while munching on his chips.
Naruto notices Shikamaru, "Oh, it's the idiot trio."
Shikamaru's eye twitches, "Quit calling us that! Man, this is freaking troublesome."
"Yahoo! I found you! My, my, everybody's here." Kiba says walking over to us with Shino and Hinata in tow. When I saw Hinata I walked over to her.
"Haven't seen you in a while, Hinata-chan!" I say with a grin. Hinata shyly says hi, but that's only because she's in front of a large crowd. You'd be surprised how loud and how much she can talk when we were alone.
When Hinata sees Naruto looking at her, she looks away and blushes, I grin at this. When Hinata sees my grin her blush grows darker.
"What did you say? You guys too? Troublesome." Shikamaru says looking at Kiba, he looked ready to fall asleep, and I had no doubt in my mind when we do the first test, he'll fall asleep.
Kiba grins, "This means all ten Genin rookies are taking the exam, eh! Now, how far can we go?"
"Well considering you failed a few times, I'd say that we will pass before you do." I say with a smirk.
Kiba turn to look at me with a glare, "Shut up."
I stick my tongue out, "Make me."
Kiba growls and goes to pounce on me, but Sasuke stops him, "You're mighty confident, Kiba." Sasuke says with smirk.
Ino glares at Kiba for taking Sasuke's attention.
"We've trained a great deal, so we won't lose to you guys!" Kiba says while Akamaru barks in agreement.
I roll my eyes at him, "And what do you think we've been doing?"
"Shut up," Naruto says looking at Kiba and points, "I don't know about Sasuke, but I sure won't lose to the likes of you!"
Hinata looks to the floor, "I'm s-sorry, Naruto-kun. Kiba-kun d-didn't m-mean it like that."
"Huh?" Naruto says looking at Hinata, she spoke so softly that Naruto didn't really hear her, but Hinata looks to the floor with a heavy blush on her face.
Choji goes to step forward, but before he could walk any more, Shino stood in front of him, "What is it?" Choji asks confused.
Shino looks to the floor, Choji was about to step on a bug.
"Don't step on it." Shino says. My eyes widen, holy mother of god, his voice was deep! He was only meant to be twelve not freaking twenty one!
"Huh?" Choji says confused.
Shino turns to Choji, "I said, don't step on it."
I whisper to Hinata, "He's freaking creepy." Shino was never a favourite character of mine, I hate bugs, Shino has bugs crawling all around him, doesn't make a good match.
Hinata whispers back, "He's not so bad."
"Yeah right." I whisper to her.
"Hey, you guy!"
I tense; it was Kabuto, Orochimaru's lap dog. I had to get my team away from him. But I can't act suspicious. When we were alone I'll tell them, but until then I need to keep my guard up and not act suspiciously. My team know not to tell anyone about my Shīringu so I'm safe, but if Kabuto notices anything he'll report it back to Orochimaru.
"You guys should be a little quieter." Kabuto says walking closer to us.
"And why should we?" Naruto asks.
"You guys are the 'rookie ten' fresh out the academy, right? Carrying on like that with cute faces." Kabuto says with a sigh.
I glare at him, "That's creepy man."
A few people in the group nodded their heads.
"Who are you? Acting all haughty!" Ino demands. You know I'm glad she asked because I didn't. I need to tone down my sarcasm; I don't want any attention from him.
Kabuto smiles at us. "I'm Kabuto Yakushi. Anyway, take a good look around you." We did as he said and saw everyone looking at us and glaring at us, as if they wanted to kill us. Well be honest, I wouldn't put it past them.
"Behind you are the Rain Ninja, they are known for their short tempers. Everyone is tense before the exam. I thought I'd warn you guys before you get your butts whipped." Kabuto says with an 'innocent' smile. Oh how I wanted to so badly kill him, it would stop a lot of things. Okay, on my list of things to do: stop Sasuke from getting the curse seal, bring Itachi back and now kill Kabuto. Seems simple enough.
I glare at one of the Rain ninja that was eyeing me.
"I guess it can't be helped." Kabuto says, "You're rookies who don't know left from right. You remind me of my old self."
"You're Kabuto-san, right?" Sakura says looking at him.
Kabuto nods, "Yes."
"Then, is this your second time?" Sakura asks.
Kabuto smiles sweetly, "No, it's my seventh."
"Huh?" Shikamaru looked at him.
I snort, "Maybe it's a sign."
I felt Kabuto's gaze on me and I inwardly panic, that wasn't meant to slip out! I was meant to be silent and not say a word so not to catch attention.
I smile at Kabuto apologetically.
Sasuke looks at me with a raised eyebrow, which I ignore.
"The exams is only held twice a year, so it's now my fourth year." Kabuto says.
Sakura says in slightly relief, "Then that means you know a lot about the exams?!"
"Kind of." Kabuto says.
"No kidding. Kabuto-san, you're pretty awesome, huh?" Naruto says with a grin.
'Not really.' I think to myself making sure I didn't say it out loud.
I felt Sasuke and Naruto's gaze on me this time, what's wrong with them?!
"But you still haven't passed." Shikamaru says, thank you Shika-kun! Someone had to say it!
Kabuto sheepishly rubs the back of his head, "Yeah, well that is the case, yes."
Shikamaru sighs, "Is the Chunin exam that high a hurdle? Man, this is utterly troublesome."
"Then, maybe I'll give a bit of information to my cute kohais." Kabuto says pulling out cards, "with these Ninja Info Cards."
"Ninja Info Cards?" Sakura repeats.
"To put it simply, they're cards that have information burned into them and coded with chakra." Kabuto kneels down to the floor and placed the cards flat, "I spent four whole years gathering information for this exam. There are two hundred of these cards and they are pure white to the eye." Kabuto flips one of the cards revealing its white front.
Kabuto places his index finger on the white front, "To open the data on these cards you need to add chakra." Kabuto adds chakra and something appears on the card.
I sigh in boredom, they weren't that interesting in the anime, and they're not interesting now. I continue to look around the room. That's when I saw the Sound Ninja. Dosu was looking at me with a smirk, I think; he face was mummified in bandages so I didn't know. Now, how would I deal with him? The other two would be easy, after all, they didn't use as much sound as Dosu did since he is the one with the gauntlet on his arm. Would I use some wind Jutsus? I bit my lip at the thought. Even if I don't let Sasuke get the curse mark, and they do come and fight us, how would we fight them?
I was brought out of my thoughts when Kabuto was attacked and he dodged a punch from Dosu. How long was I thinking?!
"He dodged it!" Sakura says.
I roll my eyes "No duh."
Kabuto was also smirking, until the glass of his glasses shattered and fell to the floor.
"So, it was that kind of attack." Kabuto says taking his broken glasses off.
Sasuke looked baffled, "What's going on? He was supposed to have evaded it."
Suddenly, Kabuto dropped to his knees and puked, blood started to pour from his ear.
"W-what's going on?" Sakura asks fearfully.
"It was sound waves." I say without realising.
Dosu laughed, "Clever girl."
His laugh sent shivers down my spine; it was cold and ruthless, much like his face.
"Write this on your card. The three from Sound Village will win this exam." Dosu says with a grin under his wrappings.
Suddenly, there was smoke at the front of the room, "Silence! Degenerates!"
My head whipped up to where the noise was coming from, it was Ibiki, looks like the test was starting now. When the smoke clears, Ibiki and a shed load of Chunin were with him, all proctors of the exam. Ibiki smirked at all of us, not doubt revelling in our shock, "Sorry to keep you waiting. I am Ibiki Morino, the proctor for the first test of the Chunin Exams."
The only thought that came to mind was that his scars looked so cool!
I saw Haku in the crowd of proctors, when I saw him I waved. Haku smiled at me, but then returned to being serious. I pouted but understood, they had to be diligent. They couldn't be distracted.