Chapter 10
The Chuunin Exams were here. All three members of Team Seven were all prepared for anything to come. All they had to do was head to the third floor of the Academy drop off their forms that would allow them to enter. Then they had to wait two hours before coming back to the room to give the Instructors enough time to prepare for the first test in the Chuunin Exams. They each had taken to training harder so they would be prepared for anything. They even worked with each other to make sure they were each up to level. Nothing was going to stop them. They each wanted to see how well they were going to do.
Coming upon the academy they walked inside. Going up the stairs they noticed something was up. On the second landing they could feel a gen-jutsu in effect and could hear people arguing. Wondering what was up they went down a hall on the second floor. They still had time to enter, so they decide to see what the commotion was all about. Coming closer they could see two boys telling people off that they couldn't enter the exams because they were weak. The whole second floor was to look like the third.
Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke could still tell they were on the second floor. Also Naruto could smell that the two boys were not boys at all, but really two adults disguised as teenagers. Looking at them he knew how they were doing the gen-jutsu, but said nothing. He watch as a boy who was dress in a green jump suit tried to get past them, but just got thrown to the ground and his teammate helping him up. It was obvious that they were playing the weak team entering the Exam.
Sasuke went up to the two guarding the door, while he and Sakura followed close behind. Then Sasuke went on how they were on the second floor and that the two in front of them were using a gen-jutsu to make people believe they were on the third floor. The two guarding the door said how impressive they were at noticing and then the two were gone in a puff of smoke. Everyone around them were mumbling about how they hadn't known.
Just as team seven were going to leave, the group that was pretending to be week stopped them. Both Sasuke and Naruto had noticed that the boy in the jump suit didn't look as injured as he had been before. Then they looked at the girl in the group. She had two buns in her hair that made her noticeable. The last member they knew came from the Hyuuga clan because of the eyes. Naruto knew him, Neji Hyuuga. He had met him a couple times and he had always thought him a cold person.
"Who are you?" ask Neji to Sasuke.
"It always right that the person asking give there names first, but even if you did I wouldn't give it to you." Neji glared at him, while the girl giggled that someone would go against Neji.
While this went on the guy in the jump suit went up to Sakura and asked her name. Then he asked her out, but she told him no way. Now that Naruto got a closer look at the other boy, he reminded him of a guy who he thought was monkey along time ago. They had the same look and same kind of out fit. They even did the same sort of depressing look when someone did something to take them down a notch. Naruto wanted to laugh.
"Come on Naruto, Sasuke we need to drop off our forms." Then Sakura linked arms with them and walked down the hall way back to the stairs.
Later after they had dropped off their forms and were leaving the room, they were stopped. Turning around they spotted the guy in the green jump suit. He looked serious as he stood there. "My name is Lee Rock and I challenge you, Sasuke Uchiha to a fight."
"Go bother someone else."
"We will fight Uchiha and it will be for the lovely Sakura."
Sakura looked horrified. "What? No way bowl head, freak."
"Don't deny it my lovely flower. But really I want to test my skills again someone who can at least prove me some challenge."
At this time Sasuke seemed a little peeved that this Lee guy wasn't thinking that he was strong enough. Seeing what might happen, Naruto motioned for Sakura to move over by him. One of them was sure to be badly injured in the fight. Both Sasuke and Lee both got into a stance. The air around them was becoming very tense as both Sakura and Naruto watch what would happen. Naruto also noticed that Sasuke was also going to use his bloodline, but then he notice something.
Obviously Sasuke notice something was up with him, when his head turned in another direction away from the fight. Knowing Naruto so long it meant they were being watched. Stopping even before the match was started; Sasuke got out of his stance and walked over to his teammates. Both Lee and Sakura seem very confused. To them one moment there was going to be a fight and the next there wasn't.
Even before Lee could speak he was cut off. "Lee what do you think your doing?" said a person who appeared out of nowhere on top of a big turtle. Both Sakura and Sasuke looked a little bug eyed at seeing an adult wearing a similar green jumps suit. It was no wonder where Lee got his looks from. Naruto wanted to laugh out loud how silly they were plus he really wanted to scream out monkey really badly for some reason at seeing Gai again.
"I am sorry Sensei."
"You better be. You know the rules you should never start a fight in a building. As punishment you will run five hundred laps around the village."
"I accept those five hundred laps as my punishment sensei."
Both Sakura and Sasuke could believe these people. What were they thinking? Naruto just rolled his eyes knowing this was just like Gai to act. He had heard rumors from people as he grew up what Gai was like. He knew his aunt was sick of Gai for several reasons. One being he had tried asking her out more then once and Naruto could see why. To him as the sensei and student did some scene together, Gai was still monkey as ever in his eyes.
Not taking it any longer, Naruto screamed out, "Monkey, do you ever shut up?" Everyone looked at Naruto. Both Sakura and Sasuke wanted to sweet drop at that. Lee was wondering who Monkey was. As soon as he yelled out Monkey, Gai looked up at him.
"Now listen here boy, I am Gai and no monkey..."
Naruto wanted to laugh. It was same all over again. "You know you said that the last time I said that when I was 4. And I silly think your a monkey in you green out fit." Some things were slowly coming back to Gai. However it was obvious that Gai still didn't remember Naruto. "I wonder if you still suck at the came of hid and seek, at least back then Kakashi did way better job than you."
It was obviously that something clicked in Gai's mind, but a second later they were proven wrong. "You know my rival Kakashi." Then he pointed at Naruto as his mind began growing. "You're Naruto, Anko's nephew. I remember you. You had to these amazing abilities at such a young age. Now I remember you first thought I was a monkey."
"And I still do."
"So you're my rival's students."
"Yes and he's way cooler than you." Both Sasuke and Sakura were wondering what Naruto was doing when he said that last part.
"I'm not so sure."
Then Lee joined in. "Gai is the best and he better than anyone. So that obviously makes him cooler."
Both Sakura and Sasuke were seeing this as pointless, but Naruto seemed to be amused. "Huh you two said something." But he didn't look at them for long. He then turned to his teammates. "Hey Sasuke, Sakura do you guys want to go and get a snack." Both Lee and Gai looked at him like there bubble had burst as the three of them walked away. As soon as they were out of hearing distance, Naruto spoke. "I had to do that. They were annoying me."
"Okay. But what was up with the Monkey thing?" ask Sakura.
"You would think that and say the same thing if you first saw Gai when you were my age. That was the first thing that came to me when I met him." Then after that they went off to waste there time before the first part of the exams.
When it was time to finally begin the Chuunin Exams, they were about to enter the room were all the other genin that were taking the test. As they drew closer there sensei Kakashi was standing there by the door. He had been waiting for them to show up and had something to tell them. He was proud of them. When they first came out of the academy they didn't look much like a team ready to work together, but now here they were. He knew they could do it.
"Kakashi-sensei," spoke Sakura first.
"It's good to know you came Sakura."
"What do you mine?" she asked a little confused.
"If you hadn't neither Naruto nor Sasuke would be allowed to enter without you. Entering the Chuunin Exams is about doing it as a team since you have to rely on each other in the future. It's a way of seeing and knowing that you each can work together without a problem. It also shows us how well each one of you does alone when it comes to things. Now do your best and don't let your teammates down." Then Kakashi walked away with his book out and reading.
"He'll never change, him and his books."
"Alright are you guys read?" asked Naruto who looked roaring to go. They nodded and went into the room.
Inside the room were many different ninja's from all over the place. Some were from grass, a few were from Sand, there were others from cloud, there were even some from sound, and another batch came several other villages he wasn't familiar with, but the most came from the leaf village. Looking at them they went from young to old, all of rookie nine being the youngest.
Naruto's body was overly excited. He was ready for this. He couldn't wait for the exams to begin. To many as he had his eye hidden below his bangs, it looked like his body was trembling in fear, but it was trembling in anticipation. This was the moment that he was going to prove to everyone who he was and what he could do. He was going to show the whole village that he wasn't the demon they all thought he was.
"Scared Naruto that you're going to be wiped out?" yelled Kiba upon seeing Naruto and his shaking body.
Naruto brought his head up so almost everyone in the room could see his eyes. Now they could see how excited he was. Kiba didn't seem to be expecting this. "Hell no! I can't wait to defeat all of you."
At this all of rookie nine came over to team seven, but both Sakura and Ino want over to him to shut him up. Sakura had him in an arm lock while Ino cover his mouth with her hands. Everyone in the room looked like they were ready to show Naruto that he was a fool. See the looks both girls were trying to get the attention off of them. The rest of the rookie nine looked like this was typical as they either shook there heads or rolled there eyes.
Then out of the crowd, came a person who was at least a few years older than them and a fellow leaf ninja. "You guys are making a lot of racket," he said to them as he drew closer. Then he looked at Naruto. "You've got a lot of guts to saying that here. I'm sure they might want to roughen you up."
By now Sakura and Ino had let Naruto go. The whole time that this new comer had talked he had never once taken his eyes off of the other ninjas in the room. Some were looking at him ready to do what the guy was going to say because they were either smirking or pounding a fist into their other hand. "My name Is Kabuto Yakushi," the guy continued. Naruto was only paying half attention to the guy, but almost everyone else was listening. Then when the other boy started to talk about these data cards, he really started to listen.
"Since I've been first entered, I created these cards to tell me everything on the entire contenders entered in the exams. They can tell me all of their skills, what make them unique and how many missions they've been on. I can give you an example if you want. All I need is a description of them and then I add a little bit of my charka. Then you will know something more about them." Everyone in rookie nine were curious, but Sasuke was the most out of them.
"Anyone?" he asked. Kabuto nodded. "I want to know Lee Rock, Gaara from the sand village, and Naruto Uzumaki." No body had expected this, except Naruto. As this went on Naruto just listened on, but looked as though he didn't give a care in the world.
"Let's see," he said shuffling the cards. Then he took out a card from his pile and brought up to his face and looked at it. "Lee Rock. Age 13. It says here Lee can only do Tai-jutsu. He has no skills in none of the others. He is apart of team Gai. Teammates are Gai Maito, a female name Tenten and Neji Hyuuga from the Hyuuga clan. So far he's been on 22 D' rank missions and 12 C ranks. Oh and that this is his first time in the Chuunin exams." Then he shuffled the card back into the pile of cards.
He shuffled a little more before he pulled out another card. This time it was on Gaara. "Gaara. Hmm... Interesting. There's not much on him that he is from Suna. It's also his first time entering the exams. His known name is Gaara of the Desert. Age 12. It's a mystery to what his abilities are. His teammates are Kankuro and Temari. They are also his siblings. It's a mystery as to if he's done any D rank, but he has done 9 C rank, 1 B rank, 1 A rank and he's even done 1 S rank mission."
Then he shuffled the cards for the last time, but this time he pulled information out on Naruto. As soon as his eyes looked at the card he looked very confused. "That's strange. That's never happened before. I can't get anything off him except how many missions he's been on, which is very impressive. Name is Naruto Uzumaki. Age 12. Naruto has done at leas 58 missions total ranging from D rank to A rank. Of the D rank missions he has done a total of 29, C rank 14, B rank 8, and of A rank he has done 7. That should be impossible for someone his age." The last part he was staring at Naruto as he shuffled all his cards back in to his pile.
He wasn't the only one that was staring at him. Most of the room was. They couldn't believe some kid had already been on a so many missions at his age along with the ranks of the missions as high an A rank. Kabuto was right that it was impossible, but how and the hell did the kid do all those. Some were thinking what this kid was. Kiba was certainly wondering the same thing as it shut him up.
Naruto all the while was just standing there like none of it had ever happen. But really he had been somehow keeping himself under control. He knew in a way how Kabuto was doing the trick to gathering the data. All he had to do was use his own charka to take a little piece of the person's charka he wanted the data on. Also the person must be in the area of him if to work. The information would always be there on the card as reference and if they ever met up again later on the information could always be updated.
Keeping his cool he only made sure that just he missions were known. He knew he couldn't control himself all the way, but he could manipulate the cards to what was okay to be known. And it worked to his liking. He also did it because he didn't trust Kabuto. There was just something about him that was telling him that Kabuto wasn't here for the Chuunin Exam. If he wasn't here for them than what was he up to? He didn't know, but he might as well keep his guard up around him and not let him know what he was up to.
As he did that out of the corner of his eye, Naruto caught some movement. Something was zigzagging its way over to them and in the last second it went straight for Kabuto. In the last second no one knew what had happen. Kabuto had unknowingly moved away, but somehow had gotten hit. The person who acted him was obviously from sound and was smirking for a short second before realizing he had a kunai at his throat.
No one had seen it coming as Naruto held the kunai. Some were wondering how he knew that Kabuto was going to be attacked. Some were even amazed that he could act that quickly in a situation. The sound ninja was staring him down trying to scare him, but it wasn't working. Naruto just gave him a look that told the other to try something and he would regret it, however it was taken away went Naruto took a quick look at Kabuto.
The old boy seemed shocked, but if he hadn't been raised as a shinobi would more than likely be dead. Kabuto glasses were broken and there seem to be something else that was wrong, but Naruto couldn't tell what it was. Looking back at the sound ninja, he suspected that it had something to do with sound waves because he was sure that he had heard a very faint humming sound from somewhere. Plus the smirk on the guys face at what happen told Naruto that the guy had been behind it.
Then suddenly a big expulsion happens in the room with a big puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared, there stood Ibiki with a bunch of other shinobis. "Uzumaki, put your weapon away. You people know better than to start fights. Plus I don't tolerate it when there are exams going on. Uzumaki if you step out of bounds I won't hesitate to inform Anko what ..."
"I think she would beat the crap out of me for messing this up, but then again I think she would have a laugh attack and want me to kill something. You know how she is. She frightening. I still pray sometime that she won't use her dam snakes on me. The last time she summoned one of them the dam things tried to eat me whole and she was just laughing her head off like it was nothing..."
"Uzumaki shut up and don't speak," said Ibiki stopping him from rambling on. The way he said it sent scary chills down everyone's back. Everyone knew that Ibiki wasn't one to tolerate anyone to interrupt him. If they did they would regret it. "Oh and Uzumaki if you decide to delay the test, I heard your a pretty good punching bag so I won't hesitate having my whole squad to use you." Some people were going to laugh, especially Kiba, but soon knocked it off. "The same go for the rest of you bums."
"Ya I heard you."
"Good." Then Ibiki straightened up. "Now each of you will get a number to where you will be sitting. So line up to be given a seat."
One by one they each were given a seat in the room. It was obviously that teams had be split up and put in different areas in the room. Naruto was a in the third row in the center and sitting next to Hinata who was trying not to blush. Sasuke was in couple rows behind him and three seats a way from the end of the row. Sakura had been placed a couple more rows from him and on the other side of the room. In front of them was a flipped over piece of paper and a pencil for them to use for the test.
"Now before we begin, I'm Ibiki Morino," said Ibiki getting their attention once more. "I will be your Examiner. Your test will be an hour long and consist of ten questions. Nine of the questions will be written down, while the last question will be given to you verbally to you ten minutes before the exam is over. Any question?" No one spoke. Some seemed to be afraid of speaking while others thought it best to keep quiet.
"Now, on to the rules. Only ten questions can be wrong…(At hearing that some were confused while some were laughing at their luck that they may not have to do the test. Soon they realized its real propose.), but you will be graded as a team. So one of you could miss four on their test, another could miss five and one could miss one and your team will still pass onto the next test. If your team misses more than ten you are out and you will have to just have to wait until next time to pass.
"Oh and no ten questions can be missing on one test, so you have to have a least one question answered and pray that your teammates pick up your lazy slack in finishing all the questions." No one could believe this. They were all praying to god that they better not screw things up for their teammates. It also told them now that they were not going to have it easy at all.
"Also you should know that I don't tolerate cheaters, so I better not catch any of you cheating. Just in case one of my men will be sure to spot you if you do any of that. If you are caught cheating you will loose five points, but once you lost a total of 10 points your teams are out. Plus you wouldn't have to mess up the test by missing all of your answers, which reminds me. Miss five questions and lose the rest by cheating your out. Got it?" Ibiki glared at them all. No one dared to ask any questions.
"Good to know you bums are listening." Then he pulled out a pocket watch and looked at it. "We will begin the test in one minute." To everyone taking the exam that one minute felt the longest minute in their lives. Some were looking around at each other looking a little worried. Naruto on the other hand was looking at the test, but had a grin on his face. Some had were looking at him like he was weird not understanding why he was so happy. Then Ibiki said the words they had been waiting for, "You may begin."
Everyone looked to the paper in front of them and flipped it over to show them the questions. Almost instantly some were sweating bullets. These questions were not going to be easy at all, unless you tried cheating. But then again that was the concept of the exam. Why else would there be so many people with Ibiki to make sure they didn't cheat. Even with the hard questions were inching them to do it. Plus why would they give you one warning.
Naruto figured that out, but then again he didn't need to cheat since he knew the questions. It took him a second to remember. He even wrote down for Ibiki that if he wanted to make them cheat he should have not made it seem so easy, but that was just his opinion. Within thirty minutes he was finished with the first nine questions. All he now need was the last question and he would be done.
During all this Naruto's pet sat at his feet waiting for the test to be over with. At one point in the test Momo got up and started wondering around the room. First he went over by the men who were keeping an eye on Sasuke. Sasuke seemed to appreciate, when Naruto had taken a quick glance around the room. He also knew that Sasuke had figured out the clues that he was to cheat. After that Momo went to bother Ibiki, but a stern look told the fox to return to his master and stay put until the exam is over.
All throughout the test people were getting kicked out of the exam. Their cheating skills had been too obvious. Some teammates were mad or upset when one of their teammates got caught doing it. There were even some that whinnied that they didn't even cheat. Those that didn't get caught would either have something telling on there face that they were getting away with it and no one could tell how. Then there were those that just keep their faces emotionless, so no one could tell what they were up to.
Finally it was time for the last question. "Before I give any of you the last question, I'm going to give you a warning. All of you have the chance to drop out of the test now and you will still have another chance at the Chuunn Exams in the future. If you stay it's at your own risk because if you fail to answer the question, you bums will be stuck being genin for the rest of your lives. You will never be Chuunin's ever, which means you can't enter future Exams."
When hearing this, many people in the room became fearful. They are given a chance to back out of the exam and take it later. If they didn't take it there was a possibility that they would fail the last question and would be forever a genin. During the first part of the test about a third of them left and now with the last question another third couldn't handle it any long. Some got up and left the room, while others said they just couldn't handle it any longer.
When it was only a third left, Ibiki looked around. "Anymore of you bums afraid to leave the exams?"
"Obviously not, other wise we would of left the room. I don't give a rat's ass if I don't pass. I'm still going to be Hokage one day. I don't care if I am genin forever to make it. I could have taken the easy way a long time ago, but I know that the only way to achieve anything is if you do it yourself and are willing to help out those close to you."
The rest of the entrees that had decided to stay in the exam, who were still slightly worried seem to draw strength from Naruto words. Ibiki could see this as Naruto just stared at him, waiting for Ibiki to do something about what he had said. Ibiki and many of his men knew what Naruto could do. Naruto had this way about him that could make people believe in him. Seeing it happen many knew that Naruto's dreams were never going to be false.
"Then I guess I only have one thing to say," said Ibiki. Everyone waited as the tension in the room was building to the point that almost all the entrees were sitting on the edge of their seat. Seeing this, Ibiki continued on. "You all pass." Everyone looked confused, even Naruto. What the hell? They passed? Where was the last question?
"Where is the last question?" one finally answered.
"That was the last part to the test. You all passed."
"What do you mean?" said another person.
"The first part was to see if you or your team could cheat. Whenever you have a mission that relies on you to finding information from the enemy you need to have a way of doing it secretly and undetected. With the last part along with most of the test it was to intimate you all to giving up. It was to see if you people could handle any situation that comes out at you into not letting the enemy to scare you or give up if you are interrogated." Then Ibiki took off his head cloth to show them his burned and scared head. "A true shinobi of a village never gives into the enemy no matter what," he said finishing. Once they had a good look he put it back on.
Just as he finished that, there was a blast where the window nearest the front of the room shattered. Then in came a big cloth ball that soon expanded to reveal a female shinobi with purple hair. She wore a fish net shirt with a black skirt that reach mid thigh. Over her shirt she wore a unzipped up coat and shinobi sandals. As people looked at her she gave off this sinister look.
"I'm Anko Mitarashi and I'm your next Examiner for the Chuunin Exam," she spoke looking at all of them. "Hey Ibiki what the hell? I thought there was going to be less than this for me."
"You can thank your nephew for the in daring them to stay."
Naruto just sat in his seat looking at his aunt for the first time in several days. "What can you say I have a way with doing things? Oh and I think your entrance sucked..." But he didn't have enough time to finish before he had to duck before his aunt sent a kunai at him.
"All show you something. As soon as these Exams are over and you're living in the house again, I'm going to make sure you regret it. I don't give a shit if your blood." Then she lunch herself at him, but Naruto was already gone and now standing by Ibiki. Standing on the desk he done the test at she turned to him. "Shit I forgot that you could do that. Oh well." Then she turned to the rest of the class.
"Alright you Maggots listen up. I'll see all of you dam maggots tomorrow morning at the 44th battle training zone aka The Forest of Death. I hope you have a strong stomach boys and girls because this could be your last." Then she was gone in a puff of smoke. Just before she had they all saw here sinister look.
Then one by one all of Ibiki's men left in a puff of smoke. Ibiki being last gave them a fare warning. "Better get a good night sleep, you bums are all dismissed."
Soon after that the room started to become empty. The only people left in the room were Team Gai and the entire rookie nine. Once they knew that they were alone, they all stared at Naruto, who seemed to not be paying attention to them. He just petted Momo thinking of what he could to getting out of his aunts punishment. Maybe he could try a Gen-jutsu until she wasn't planning to use him as a punching bag.
"So that's your aunt?" said Ino.
"Ya," said Naruto coming out of his thoughts.
"Naruto your aunt is scary," said Choji grabbing a snack size bag of chips out of his pouch.
"It sucks to be you," was all Shikamaru could say.
"Now I can see were Naruto gets his attitude from," said Sakura. Many of them nodded their heads.
"I've seen her around several times at the Noodle Bar several times. All this time she was her aunt," this time it was Hinata.
"Yeah, now that you say that I've seen her there as well...Wait a moment... Now that I think about it you were there at the same time," said Ino. "I can't believe this whole time we've seen you there, she was also their with you or you with her..." Then Shikamaru cut her off.
"How we are you to know or us. They look nothing a like. They are only alike with their attitudes." Choji just looked back and forth between the two munching away.
"You may be right, but how could they keep it quiet then? Naruto is loud like her." Most nodded wondering the same thing.
"We didn't. You guys never asked about her when she was around. Always when she was gone. It's not my fault you didn't realize...(Sakura then hit him. He stared at her.) Owww. You don't have to hit. Shit. Besides you can go and ask your parents, your sensei's, or most high ranking Jounins, they know."
"You could of shown us a picture of her," said Sakura.
"Yeah."
"Would if I could. When you become a shinobi you never want to have too many pictures of yourselves. Of the five I know of she keeps locked away, but there is one on the mantle in the library at home."
"Well then we'll go to you house." said Ino
At hearing this TenTen of team Gai spoke up. "Can we come, well mostly me. Idolize Anko and Tsunade for there abilities." Everyone looked at Naruto.
"Sorry not allowed to invite people over at the moment. Since my aunt is in the Chuunin Exams, I'm not allowed to live with her. Plus even if the house is mine, she kicked me out for a short time."
"Then after the exam is over."
"Not for a while." Everyone looked at Naruto wondering what he meant. When Ino was going to speak he continued. "I'm not ready." He had said it looking way out one of the windows in the room. Looking at him they could tell it was a touchy subject. Sasuke could understand even though he had been to Naruto's home once.
"Why not? I can understand for some people, but me, Shikamaru, Choji, and Hinata know your past. We grew up together..."
"You don't know everything. So for right now can you please drop it," he said snapping at her. When he turned to look at her, Ino realized something. She knew that Naruto trusted them, but he was still wanted to stay careful. "You guys know the rules. Even if I'm loud to tell you..."
"He still needs time." Everyone turned to see Kakashi holding his book, but staring at them with his one eye. "Those that know Naruto don't know some things. Some things are a touchy subject to bring up. You know a lot about his past, to know that it is a cause and effect problem. However you know that you are his friends and when the time is right, Naruto will end up telling you. Right Naruto?" Naruto nodded. "Good. Now that you young ones understand, Naruto is being summoned by the Hokage." Before anyone could say anything to Naruto, both Naruto and Kakashi disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Do you think Naruto is upset with us," asked Hinata.
"Not really," said Shikamaru. "Some things maybe touchy, but he doesn't let it bother his friendship with us. Ino on the other had should of ended the subject as soon as he asked her. He said he would eventually let us. Besides I prefer the open Naruto to the closed up one." Some were shocked by his finishing statement not expecting that, but they too had to agree.
"I think we should say at least a sorry to him or at least Ino..."
"Choji..."
"How troublesome."
"Shikamaru.."
On the way to the Hokage's office Naruto turned to look at Kakashi. "Thanks."
"They don't know everything that Sakura or Sasuke know, do they?" Kakashi was being blunt.
"No. I was worried that they would be mad at me that my teammates know more, but that wasn't the only reason. I'm not ready to for them to know who just yet. Besides if I'm not careful Ino my blab about it." Kakashi knew what he meant.
"But they should know."
"I know they should. You sound like the old man and Iruka." Then Naruto was silent for a minute. "Maybe I'll tell them when the exams are over." Kakashi nodded and after that they were silent on their way to the Hokage's office.
When they got there and walked into the office, the Hokage was alone and waiting for them. Naruto just walked up to the desk and stood in front of it. Kakashi followed suit. The Hokage looked at them for a second before he brought up his hands to perform a silencing jutsu on the room. He it was obvious that he didn't want them to be over heard.
"I heard from Ibiki that you found yourself in a fight Naruto. What on earth caused you to step out of line? You know better."
"The opponent from sound was trying to cause the fight. He did some trick that dealt with sound from what I believe."
"How do you know this?"
"Because as he did his attack, I could hear a faint humming sound that I could barely hear. Also I'm pretty sure that the one that was affected by it had gotten injured by it. I could smell blood once the attack was sent out. Plus the sound Shinobi was smirking, even though he didn't touch Kabuto Yakushi. I'm not sure how he did it, but I think the thing on the attackers hand had something to do with it. What I did was stop any forward attacks that could happen by giving the Sound Shinobi a warning."
"That is good that you protected a fellow Leaf Shinobi."
What Naruto said next stopped Sarutobi. "I don't trust Kabuto Yakushi." Both Kakashi and Sarutobi looked at him. Naruto just continued. "There's just something about him that bothers me. He seemed just to friendly when he introduced himself to us. But what bothers me the most is that he has the same lingering sent around him that is also on the sound shinobi."
"So they know each other..."
"No. They know the same person, but it didn't smell like they knew each other because there was there was not scent on them of each other."
"Very interesting."
"It could be just a coincidence, Naruto."
"No. With me nothing is just coincidence and you know it Kakashi."
"I'm afraid Naruto right when it comes to him. However, Naruto there isn't a sufficient amount of evidences to take in Kabuto for questing."
"Then have someone keep a watchful eye on him. He's not all he wants us to hear."
"Alright Naruto, but if nothing comes up than you will have to drop it."
"I will."
Soon after that Naruto left the Hokage's office alone. He made his made his way to a deserted street before to think, but also for a private chat. "So you heard everything gramps."
"Yes."
"Does this have anything to do with why you returned and why you don't want the old man to know you in town?"
"Possible. I'm sure Anko told you about the person who put the curse mark on her neck."
"How could she not she despised that man. Why are you bringing this up."
"I believe he or some of his spies might be here undercover. So tell me a little more about this Kabuto person."
"You believe Kabuto might be in league with him?"
"I'm sure Naruto. That's why I want you to give me anything you know."
"There's not much to tell. I get the feeling that he stays in the shadows and gathers information by creating data cards."
"Data cards?"
"They are cards that have individuals' information on any shinobi he comes across. Even if he wanted he could even probably store info on the different nations. From what I figured out he needs to be in the same area as the one he wants data on. He uses his charka to take a sample of the indivisual's he wants to look at and then puts it on a card so that only he or the person he wants to know can look at it. That's what I figured out. Plus when he was trying to get info on me I manipulated his charka to only let him know what I wanted him to know."
"Clever Naruto. You seem to be right that this Kabuto person could be gathering information. Now do you have a clue as to who they knew from the scent on both of them?"
"No. But for some reason I get the feeling that I've smelt that scent from somewhere."
"When you know you tell me sport? For now just stay on guard. Also keep me informed as well."
"You got pervy-gramps." Jiraiya left eye brow twitched in annoyance. "Well I better get going. I've got to rest up for tomorrow. Knowing Anko, she's not going to let the second part of the exam easy. So I better get some rest. Besides you wouldn't what to keep those ladies waiting for you any longer would you pervert."
As soon Jiraiya hear the word ladies, he turned his back on Naruto. He looked way to eager to look at them and to put the moves on them. However as soon as he turned to them that was not what he was expecting at all. All he saw was two sagging, old women standing a few doors down. They were looking at him and waving. All he wanted to do was groan at the trick Naruto had pulled. So when he turned back to the boy he was ready to pound the boy in to the ground.
"Naruto, next time I see you I'm going to teach a lesson," he said realized that once again he had been tricked again. While he had been looking, Naruto had slipped out and taken off. He wasn't mad for long. "With him you can," he mumbled to himself. Then he too took off to gather some more research.