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Rene-Phoenix of the Uchiha

Chapter 10

The day of the Chunnin exams had arrived and Team 11 stood outside the academy waiting for Team 8. They were talking with each other when a voice interrupted them.

"So you're here" Team 11 looked behind them to see Sasuke Uchiha. The past few months Sasuke had been almost a guest of the Uchiha clan district. The reason being Kakashi had been training him from dawn until dark every day. The only change in his appearance was a sword strapped to his back.

"You're alone cousin." Rene's comment caused Sasuke to smirk.

"I don't need any help taking care of these peasants." Sasuke gloated

Rene just shook his head, "Here I thought Kakashi had beaten the arrogance out of you. But it appears that I will have to do it personally."

Sasuke's smirk dropped at Rene's declaration, being replaced with a look of anger, "You think you take me half-breed?"

Rene's response was a simple smile, "We will see cousin."

Sasuke left with a humph, It was a few moments later that Team 8 arrived.
"Are you guys ready to become chunin?" Naruto asked. He was answered by nodded heads.

When they entered the academy they saw a large group of genin trying to get into a room guarded by two chunin. There eyebrows raised when they saw Lee's green jumpsuit at the front of the group shouting something about "youth" only to be backhanded by one of the chunin.

Naruto started to move forward to help his fellow leaf ninja, but was stopped by Rene's hand on his shoulder. "Hinata is there a genjustu on any part of the room?" Hinata activated her eyes and nodded. There was one on the sign saying floor 314 (where they were supposed to go) when it was actually floor 214. Rene smirked, "Since your cousin is here they already know that, so there're acting. Deception is a ninja's greatest tool after all. Come on let's go up to the real floor."

As they were walking up the stairs Ino asked a question, "Rene-kun, where is Julia?"

"Anko is taking care of her until the exams are over."

A grimace passed over Ino's face, "Are you sure Anko's the best role model for her?"

Rene gave a small smile, "We spend almost every waking minute with her, and we are fine. As along as she doesn't start wearing fishnets everything will be fine-"They had made it to the top of the stairs and saw Kurenai. Anko, and Julia waiting for them. What had caused Rene to stop talking was the fact that Julia was dressed as mini- Anko fishnets and all. His eyebrow twitched, and then a soft smile appeared on his face as he said, "Release". Julia reappeared wearing a shirt and shorts.

With a pout on her face she said, "You're no fun big brother" She then hugged his legs, "Stay safe and kick butt." She then went back over to Anko.

"The brat said it all good luck." Anko said and Kurenai nodded. All three of them disappeared.

When the two teams entered everyone expect Rene went to talk to Kiba, Choji, and Shikamaru who had also entered. Rene scoped out the other teams, there were a few from the Leaf, the Suna team, one from Grass, and one from the new Sound village, a few from Water . It seemed that everyone village expect Rock and Lightning had sent a team. His attention was turned toward a boy a few years older with gray hair tied in a ponytail and with glasses wearing a Leaf headband , Rene gathered that his name was Kabuto, and he had taken the exam seven times! That set off alarm bells in his head, no one took the exam seven times else they were as stubborn as Naruto, or they were collecting information on the ninjas. Could he be a spy?

Rene was forced out of his thoughts by the appearance of three ninja, two were wearing standard Chunin gear, and the third had a black bandana over his head, a scar under his right eye, and a scar all the way down his left cheek. It was this ninja that spoke. "I am Ibiki Morino head interrogator here in the Hidden Leaf, and proctor for the first part of the Chunin Exams now find a seat and SHUT UP!" Everyone took their seats with Hinata and Naruto right next to each other, Rene one seat away from them, Sakura and Ino a few rolls behind, and Shino in the back row. "I am doing to pass out a test with nine questions on it, you have an hour to complete it. At which time there will be a tenth question. If any of you are caught cheating you are automatically disqualified? Any questions?" The room was silent, as the two Chunin passed out the exams.

Rene's eyes widened as he got the test, all the questions were insane, Sakura was probably the only one who could actually answer without cheating. That was it you had to cheat, you just couldn't get caught. With that revelation in mind Rene went over how his friends would do, Sakura could just answer the questions, Ino had her mind switching justu, Shino his bugs, Hinata and him had their eyes. The only who would have trouble would be Naruto, Rene had to help him but how. After a few moments he came up with a solution, he had to cause a distraction. But how? His eyes roamed over the other genin until they landed on Kabuto who gave him a kind smile, Rene's mind came up with a plan, but he wrestled with it. What if Kabuto wasn't really a spy, but in the end he decided better safe than sorry and activated his sharingan, it took a moment but Kabuto's froze, and his smile turned to a look of fear. At once Kabuto jumped from his seat screaming in fear. Ibiki had the two Chunin's escort Kabuto and his team out of the room immediately. It only took a moment for Rene to switch Naruto's test with one from another genin, who had a few answers on it. Everyone was silent as Ibiki looked at everyone for signs of guilt, Rene schooled his features, but inside he was surprised at the effect the genjustu had had. It was a simple C-rank that if Kabuto was a spy he should have been able to break, but Rene did pride himself on his ability to surprise his enemy's so it was possible that he had not been expecting it. Either way a team out of the exams was a plus in his book.

The hour came and went with a few teams being unlimited when Ibiki said, "PENICLS DOWN! Now comes the tenth question if you answer if pass, but if you answer wrong you can never answer another Chunin in this village or any other. If you want to leave raise your hand now." A few people did and they left, when no one else did Ibiki with a clap of his hands said, "YOU ALL PASS!"

The room was silent then a collective "WHAT?!" was shouted by most present.

Ibiki returned to his serious tone, "As a Chunin you may be forced to give up everything for a mission, those that left aren't cut out to be Chunin simple as that. "

It was silent for a few more moments until a smooth female voice, "Well it seems we have a good crop this year huh Ibiki?" Out of thin air it seemed appeared a women with long purple hair and was dressed in typical Jounin attire with a sword strapped to her back. Ibiki nodded. "My name is Yūgao Uzuki and I will be the proctor for the second part of the exam, go to training ground 44." She then disappeared via Body Flicker jutsu.

As one large body the remaining genin quickly filed out of the academy, as they made their way to the training ground Naruto asked, "Rene why did you that to Kabuto?" his tone was slightly accusatory.

"No one takes the exams seven times for nothing Naruto." Was his replay

"You think he is a spy?" Shino asked

Rene nodded, "Either way it's one less team for us to fight against now come on let's get the training ground."

When they arrived they saw Yuago sitting on top a chain link fence. The fence stood between the genin and a massive forest, "This is training ground 44 or as it better known as the Forest of Death" Yuago said with a smirk on her face. Almost as if on cue a loud roar came from the forest, causing some of the genin to jump in fright. "Now your goal here is capture an enemy teams scroll. If you get a heaven scroll you want to get an earth scroll, and verse versus. You have five days to get to the scroll and get to the tower in the middle. Now go over to the counter to get your scroll and sign the waiver saying that the Leaf isn't responsible for you dying. Then line up at the gates and wait for signal"

The did as she said and it happened that teams 8, and 11 both got heaven scrolls. All the teams lined up at one of the gates and at the shout of Go! They all rushed into the forest.

It had only been a few minutes when both teams were ambushed by a team of water ninja.

"Hand over the scrolls." One of them said

"Do you know the worst thing you can do when fighting someone with the sharingan?" Rene asked. All three of the ninja tensed ready to fight. "It's not using justu in front of them, it looking them in the eye." As he finished he looked each of the other ninja in the eye and cast a simple genjustu that put them to sleep. After searching the bags they found an earth scroll, and after tying them up with ninja wire. They left, One down one to go Rene thought as they jump on the tree branches making their way through the forest.

It was an hour later when Naruto asked about food, "Hey did anyone pack any food I'm getting a little hungry."

Rene turned to Naruto, " Well eat after we get another earth scroll, the faster we get the scrolls the faster we get out of this-" He was cut off by a huge blast of wind, that knocked everyone expect Naruto off the branches and to the forest ground below.

After blinking his eyes a few times Rene remember what had just happened, that wind blast couldn't have caused by a mere genin, "Hinata use your eyes what do you see."

Hinata activated her byakugan, "I see Naruto and another person, his charka is different its purple."

Rene activated his sharingan, The person's charka was indeed purple, but what drew him most was the sword the person carried he recognized it. It was the Kusanagi Sword, and the only person who that was-" Rene eyes widened in fear as he reached the conclusion, "It's Orochimaru of the Sannin." As he was talking Orochimaru was swinging his sword toward Naruto and thanks to his sharingan he could see Naruto wouldn't be able to dodge it. As once he rushed toward to Naruto the pleas of friend fell on death ears.

Naruto was paralyzed with fear he couldn't move, the sword was coming toward him and there was nothing he could do, he closed his eyes ready to feel the pain, only to feel nothing. He opened them to see the point of the sword inches from his face. His breath caught in his throat as he saw why the sword had stopped. Rene stood between them, the sword had pierced him straight through. His mouth was filled with blood, and he had a smile on his face, he had his sword posed as if he was ready to block. "Damn I was just a tad too slow huh, Naruto." He let out a chuckle coughing up some blood, he then raised his blade and with a mighty yell brought it down at the hilt of the Kusnagi shattering the blade from the hilt. With that he fell backwards of the branch with the blade of the Kusnagi stuck in him and with a loud crash landed on the forest floor.

Naruto remained still then with a roar that the shook the whole forest, red charka enveloped him, and on the edges of the Hidden Leaf the people felt a charka they had not felt in 13 years. The Nine Tailed Fox had returned.

Well there is the chapter and I hope you like the cliff hanger I left on, and I hope you don't think of me as evil for doing so. As always thank you for the support.