Disclaimer: I Don't own naruto
Authors note: This is my longest chapter yet. hope you like it. I'll try and get the next chapter out by friday or saturday.
[Beginning of the first exam
The man named ibiki spoke in front of hundreds want a be chunins " alright guys this test will be a written test."
Naruto started to sweat. He sucked at taking written test. Naruto getting a good grade on a test would be like a certain white haired sanin seeing a beautiful girl and not go peep on her. It's just not going to happen. The only thing that ran through our hero's mind was I am so screwed.
Ibiki started talking again " This test will have some rules. The test is composed of ten questions ten points. If one of your team mates scores a zero on the exam the whole team fails. Also their will be a 2 point deduction for every time we catch one of you guys cheating. If your caught cheating 5 times you and your team fails. Lastly the tenth and final question will be given to you once 45 minutes have passed. Alright guys begin."
Everyone was nervous at what ibiki said. Especially naruto. Shit I cant fail or ill let shino and ino down. I guess ill just skip the hard ones and try to do the easy ones. He quickly scanned the paper to see witch ones were easy. Naruto started sweating even more when he realized that there were no easy ones Crap I'm so screwed. I have to cheat. right then the girl next to him spoke up
It was the shy Hinata " Hey naruto you alright" She blushed the whole time saying it.
Naruto just looked at the hyuga and smiled " Na I'll be ok I hope." damn I didn't even realize she was there. She's nice though nothing like neji. Maybe not all hyugas are so stuck up.
Hinata blushed an even deeper shade of red when naruto smiled at her " Umm naruto you can look off my paper if you want."
Naruto started to thank kami for giving him this opportunity to cheat. But right before he looked over a kunai whizzed by his head.
A chunin proctor called out " Team 98 fails"
Naruto realizing that he can't get caught quickly decide to denie the shy hyuga's offer " I'm sorry hinata but I can't do that. I wouldn't be much of a ninja if I had to resort to cheating."
Hinata just smile " Sorry naruto I guess your right." He's so amazing
Naruto didn't think he was amazing though. god damn it. That was probably my only chance to get answers. And now that I let my pride get in the way im so screwed. I guess there's only one thing left to do is bet everything on the 10th question.
Ino was also worried about our hyperactive blond. shit we have naruto on our team. He couldn't pass a test if his life depended on it. Knowing him though he sure as hell would try. If not for himself then for me and shino. Oh it looks like big brain sakura's done. I guess it time for me to get some answers. Ino quietly said "Shintenshin no Jutsu (Mind Body Change Technique). Ino wound up transferring her subconscious into sakura. Alright I got to memorize these questions quick. It looks like the 45 minutes are almost up.
Right when ino released the jutsu and finished copying down answers the 45 minutes were up. The man known As Morino Ibiki spoke up " Alright 45 minutes is up. It time for me to give you the 10th question. But before I can do that I must tell you that the 10th question has some very special rules."
Temari asked " What rules"
The special Jounin gladly answered " You have the choice of taking the question or not. If you don't take it your score will be reduced to 0 and your whole team would fail."
A gennin in the back screamed " Of course will take why wouldn't we?"
The jounin started to laugh evilly " Because if you get the tenth question wrong you can never take the chunin exam again."
Right when he said that everyone in the classroom thought the same thing Oh fuck.
Slowly more and more people started to raise there hand and quit.
Ino saw the people quitting and though naruto should do the same thing. God damn naruto don't be stubborn quit. don't worry about me or shino. Worry about yourself for once. If you fail now your dreams will be shattered. Ino then thought back to all the times naruto said he was going to become hokage. I use to think you were an idiot with a dream that could never come true. But the more time I spent with you I started to realize that you one day might actually become hokage. I know you'll probably hat me for this but I cant let you lose your dream. Ino started to slowly raise her hand until she saw that naruto had already raised his.
All of the rookie nine were completely shocked about this. They would have never believed that naruto actually gave up.
[ at the jounin lounge
Asuma, Kureani, kakashi, and hayate were all sitting around wondering how there teams were doing. None more than Hayate.
Asuma saw hayate beginning to get impatient " You can calm down Hayate our teams will be back with us soon."
Hayate was confused by what asuma said " What do you mean."
The nicotine addicted jounin answered " The person giving the first exam id Morino Ibiki."
Kurenai never heard that name before and decided to ask " Who's he"
kakashi answered " He's a special jounin who specializes in torture and information gathering, he can find a weakness in anybody and bring it out."
Hayate started to laugh which stunned everybody. kakashi was confused and decided to ask what was up with our favorite sickly jounin " Did your cold go to your head. Why are you laughing."
The sick jounin quickly became serious " It looks like I'm not going to be busy for a while."
Asuma asked " What do you mean"
Hayate spoke with pride in my voice " My team will be fine against Ibiki's methods. Especially naruto. Naruto would never give up it could hurt someone else. He's a kid that can endure any kind of pain life throws at him."
kakashi smirked under his mask. No one knew this but kekashi had always liked naruto. He believed the same thing that the hokage believed. That Naruto was a hero. " Your probably right Hayate."
[ Back at the ninja academy
Every one was still in shock at seeing naruto's hand up. Ibiki was about to call teams 10 name, but didn't get the chance.
Naruto slammed his fist down. When he did this he let a little bit of his lighting element out creating sparks when his hand hit the ground. " I don't give a shit what you do to me, Im taking this question. Even if I fail and never become a chunin it doesn't matter because I'll become hokage anyway. I can't give up and I never will that is my way of the ninja."
Ino couldn't believe it. god he's such an idiot. I cant believe he worried me like that. I should've of known. Uzumaki Naruto will never back down from anyone or anything that stand in the way of his dream.
Ibiki was slightly stunned. He looked at a classroom of students that were once tense and scared but now are completely confident. I cant believe it he made everyone more confident. Man this Uzumaki Naruto is an interesting guy. " Alright this is the last time I'm going to ask is there anyone that would like to quit" No one raised there hand. I guess it's useless to wait any longer. " Alright everyone here PASSES"
The whole room fell off their seats and screamed " WHAT."
" you could say that the last question was a 2 choice question. In the world of a ninja you can't give up just because the outcome might become bad. A true ninja has the guts to face any outcome of a mission." Hmm looks like 26 teams pass, More then I expected. Ibiki then turned his head to the window. A kunai flew through the window and a lady wearing fishnet stocking came flying in right behind it.
The lady looked back at Morino Ibiki while twirling a kunai around her finger. " You let 26 teams pass ibiki, you must be slipping."
The torture expert replied " Or it could be that this group is rather exceptional"
The crazy lady started laughing " Hello guys my name is Mitarashi Anko and I'll be your 2nd exam instructor." She then licked her lips " Just to warn you In my exam More than half of you will fail."
Everyone was scared shitless by the crazy women named anko. Shino and Ino were scared shitless for other reasons. Holy shit she has the same personality as naruto. When those two meet face to face all hell is going to break lose.
Before anko left she said one las thing " The exam starts tomorrow at 9 am. Your jouni-sensei's will tell you where to go. Well ok bye bye." Anko leaped out the window.
All Naruto could think of while watching anko was This isn't going to be a fun exam tomorrow. 5 minutes later everyone left to go meet ther jounin-sensei's.
[ Ninja Academy 1 hour later.
The room that had once held so many gennin earlier was now empty. The only one left was a man named Morino Ibiki. He was picking up all the tests. But he stopped when he came across one test that had the name Uzumaki Naruto on it. This was the boy who changed everybody minds test. I wonder how he did. He quickly scanned over the sheet to find that there was nothing but a name on it. Ha ha ha what an interesting kid. He stood up to me and bet it all when he didn't even know any of the answers. I wonder how much farther you will get Naruto.
[ The next day at the forest of death
Mitarashi anko stood in front of 78 genin and started to explain the 2nd exam " Alright you little shit's, it's time for the 2nd exam. We will give each team a scroll. There are two scrolls. The scroll of earth and the scroll of heaven. To pass this exam you must defeat another team and take there scroll. If you do not have one of each scroll you fail. Once you get both scrolls you have to get to the tower in the center of the forest of death. You have a time limit of five days. Alright guys this is a survival test. I expect that at least one of you will probably die. With that said come get your scrolls."
Out of the 78 Gennin participating in this exam only one wasn't freaking out. " Hay crazy lady you don't scare me. I kick ass in this exam." Our favorite blond screamed
" Oh really" Anko through a kunai witch flew by his head scratching his cheek. She then reappeared behind him and licked his cut " Umm"
This freaked out naruto beyond belief. But what was more interesting was how ino felt about it. At first she thought it was funny but when anko licked naruto something inside twinged with anger Get the hell off of him. ino didn't know why she felt so angry about what happened. Why do I care it's just naruto. It's just naru….. Ino's thoughts were interrupted when a very feminit looking grass nin snuck up on anko.
The weird guy gave anko her kunai back but not before anko threaten to kill him a good 5 to 6 times. Once anko got through threatening everyone she gave out the scrolls.
[ 10 minutes later
Team 10 had received the heaven scroll and had just entered the forest of death. Within the first 5 minutes of being in there they herd someone scream. In got a little freaked out and jumped on to naruto. Lets just say when that happened naruto became red as a tomato from blushing.
When ino figured out that she was hanging onto naruto. She turned to look at him. She was planning to yell at him even knowing it wasn't his fault. Before she could open her mouth to yell she looked directly into his blue eyes. Ino blushed worse the hinata usually does. She didn't know what came over her but she started to slowly move her face closer to his. She was about an inch away when shino spoke up.
" Uhmm I hope Im not interrupting anything but im going to use my bugs and try and find a team nearby. Mushi Yose no Jutsu (Insect Gathering Technique)." The bug user interrupted our two blonds.
Shino's voice and bugs was enough to shock ino out of what she was doing. She quicky jumped of naruto and drop kicked him in the back of the head. Lets just say naruto went up up and away. " Pervert. Your such an ero baka" Holy crap I almost kissed him but why. Im in love with Saskue-kun.
When naruto finally got back up from the dropkick he was kind of confused " You jump on me and it's my fault." Did she almost kiss me. I don't know what it is about her but when ever I get close to her my heart starts pounding.
Before naruto could figure anything out, shino's bugs found some one. Some one familiar. " Shit guys I found Team 7 but it seem that the weird grass nin is attacking them. He's not going after the scroll he's trying to kill them."
Right when shino finished talking they all herd a female scream. Ino knew that scream. She had to go help. " Shit that was sakura. Naruto we need to help them."
Naruto took one deep breath before agreeing " Alright ino lets go help. I just hope we get there in time."
Our 3 hero's started jumping from tree to tree. They were still a little while away when ino herd sakura scream again. This freaked her out. She started to shake in worry. " I don't know what I'll do If sakura gets hurt. I know we fight all the time but she's one of the few really good friends i have."
Naruto reached over to ino and tried to comfort her. " it's alright ino. I wont let her get hurt I promise An you know me with my promises. I always keep them because that's my way of the ninja." He then gave the worried girl one of his real smiles.
Ino just smiled " Thanks Naruto"
Our hero just smiled back. " No problem"
Naruto started to pick up speed. They were really close to where sakura's scream came from. Right before they got there ino just stared at her blond haired blue eyes teammate. I don't know what it is but whenever naruto smiles like that it seems to calm me.
Ino wasn't calm for much longer. Team 10 arrived on the scene right when the grass nin bit Saskue on the neck and gave him something called the curse seal. Before jumping down to help, naruto quickly looked around to see if he could find sakura and kiba. He found them bloodied and beaten a couple feet from where saskue was. But right when naruto saw them the grass nin was charging at them ready to kill. The blond genin throw a couple of shuriken. The shuriken flew right in front of the grass nin, stopping him in his tracks.
The grass nin looked up at team ten and licked his lips " I see some fresh meat wants to join the party."
Team 10 quickly jumped down in front of sakura and kiba. Ino then went over to check on team 7 while naruto and shino made sure the grass nin didn't attack. Ino took out a first aid kit and started treating sakura's wound.
Sakura woke up right when ino started treating her wound " Omg it you ino. Are we safe is that monstor gone." She then looked over and saw saskue on the grown and the grass nin not to far away. " Oh god he managed to beat saskue where dead for sure."
Ino tried to calm down the hysterical girl. " Calm down. Don't worry where here to help. Naruto and shino will take care of him."
Sakura was still a wreck " How can naruto and shino beat him. Saskue loss and he was the strongest gennin in the leaf."
Ino grabbed her into a hug. " You'll be fine. Naruto promised me. So you don't have to worry. The one thing that you know about is that he never breaks a promise."
Sakura knew that was true and calmed down a little. She just held onto ino as tight as she could, tears flowing from her eyes. " I know I know but im so scared."
Ino turned away from a crying sakura and looked a naruto. Please naruto find a way to beat him.
( Now let the action begin) The grass nin had and evil smirk on and stared at naruto and shino " Alright boys lets have some fun. Shikumi no Jutsu (Death Viewing Technique) (Killing Intent)."
Naruto and shino saw images of their own death in painful ways. Shino was frozen stiff and terrified. Naruto was alright though. He hasn't figure out that jutsu doesn't work with me. I'll just play along and maybe I can catch him off guard.
The grass nin was laughing evilly " Ha Ha that was to easy." He pulled out two kunai and threw them at shino and naruto.
Ino saw what happened but sakura was still holding her so she could help them " Guys what are you doing. Move goddamn I"
Naruto waited till the kunai were inches away from them before he dodged. He took shino and jumped out of the way. He then took shino over to ino " That asshole over there messed with his mind. Try and snap him out of it I'm going to need help." He then turned around and stared at the grass nin with hatred in his eyes.
The grass nin was a little surprised that a genin could break away from his jutsu so easily " How did you break my jutsu. I Gave you both a jutsu that simulated a painful death. Your friend over there is still messed up but your fine. How?"
Naruto pulled out his twin blades and replied with hatred in his voice " A jutsu like that won't work on me. My life has been far more painful then that jutsu."
That answer surprised everyone especially sakura and ino. The both looked at each other with worry in their eyes " What did he mean by that." They both asked each other.
The grass nin was surprised also " Interesting. Well let's begin. Daitoppa (Great Breakthrough)" A huge gust of wind blew naruto into a tree. The impact caused the blond genin to coughed up blood.
The blue eyed ninja wiped the blood of his mouth and stood back up. " Let's get wild. Heavenly body Raiton (lightning)." naruto's body turned into white lightning.
The grass nin was utterly shocked " What the hell type of bloodline is that."
Naruto screamed " well why don't I show you. Toruneedo Raitoningu (Tornado Lightning)." a tornado made up of lightning shot out at the grass nin.
The grass nin saw the tornado coming and bit his thumb " Kuchiyose no Jutsu - Summoning Technique." a 15 foot snake took the blast head on and protected the mysterious nin. The blast hit the snake dead on but it didn't do to much damage. " Ha ha lets see you play with my snake for a little bit." The huge snake came charging at Ino ans everyone else not naruto.
Naruto saw what the snake was after and got scarred. He released his chakra weights and sprinted in front of the snake.
Sakura and ino were scared to death they each closed their preparing for death. When the snake was a couple feet from them ino opened her eyes. She didn't see a snake all she saw was naruto, Standing between them and a 15 foot snake.
" Don't worry Ino I won't let anything happen to you. Heavenly body Hyouton (Ice)." He then started to do hand seals. Please kami let this work. "Haryuu Mouko (Destruction Dragon Fierce Tiger)" Kami answered naruto's plea for help. A 25 foot ice tiger came flying out at the snake.
The grass nin was standing on top pf the snakes head and saw the icy beast coming right at him. " Oh crap he can use Hyouton jutsu's." right before the ice tiger hit the snake the grass nin jumped out of the way avoiding danger. Well the snakes wasn't so lucky the ice tiger made a whole strait through the giant snake.
Ino and sakura were shocked. Naruto actually managed to stop the giant snake. Naruto wasn't done yet. " Yo freak let me introduce you to a technique I created myself. Hyouton Saaburu (Ice Saber )" ice covered naruto blades making them 2 times harder and sharper. " Let go you little snake freak Mikadzuki no Mai (Dance of the Crescent Moon)"
Naruto made three shadow copies of himself and charged at the grass nin. Right before he reached the grass nin naruto jumped up in the air.
The grass nin seem to know wich on was the real naruto " I'm sorry little leaf nin but you made your final fatal mistake. Senei Jashu (Hidden Shadow Snake Hands)." A couple of snakes shot out of the grass nins arm. Naruto was able to dodge by doing a corkscrew in the air.
When naruto was inches away from coming down and slicing the grass nin in half. I mean mere seconds before narutos blades touched the grass nin, a sword came flinging out of his mouth. I stabbed strait threw naruto. He then pinned naruto up against a tree. " Ha Ha so how do you like my Kusangi(Grasscutter)."
Ino watched in horror as naruto spat up blood. no it cant be. He cant die, he hasn't become hokage yet. Ino burst into tears. Sakura joined her. Ino just let tears fly freely why did I make him promise to save us. He fought so hard to protect us. Why does he always do that. He always gets hurt so other's won't have to. Naruto please don't die. Ino screamed " Naruto"
The grass nin smirked " You seem to have an interesting bloodline. Maybe ill make you my back up plan." he then tried to bight naruto on the neck like he did saskue.
Even if he was impaled with a sword, Naruto wasn't going to let the crazy snake nin bite him. " Get the hell away from me you freaky bastard. Heavenly Body Raiton ( Lightning)." He turned his body into lightning. When the grass nin tried to bite him he got a little shock.
The shock of lightning that hit the grass nins face seemed to singe off his face. The grass nin had a different face. His true face showed a much older pale skin ninja. " Feisty aren't we. It doesn't matter the uchiha was stronger so I really don't need you."
Ino couldn't just sit there and watch anymore. She pulled sakura off of her and pulled out a couple kunai's. she was about go until someone grabed her arm.
It was shino. He seemed to finally snap out of the jutsu the pale skin nin placed on him. " Wait up I' ll help. Naruto's one of my few good friend I cant just sit here and let him die."
Ino just nodded. They both started to run at the grass nin. But before they could even get close Naruto yelled at them. " Don't even think about fighting this guy. He'll just kill you."
Ino pleaded with her blond hair teammate. " But if we work together we might be able to save me."
Naruto coughed up some more blood " No, just leave me. Take saskue, kiba, and sakura and get the hell out of here."
Ino started to cry again. She couldn't stand seeing naruto hurt like that. " Naruto I can't just leave you here to die. Please naruto let us help."
Shino started to tear also " Naruto I can't leave you either. Your on of the few people who accepted me right away even knowing I was a little different."
A single tear trickled out of naruto eyes. " Thanks, but I rather die then see you guys get hurt. I'm sorry but you guys are going to have to finish this exam without me." He then pulled the sword out of his stomach and threw it to the ground. " I'll hold him off for a little while but you guys got to go. NOW!"
Ino started to cry even harder " No naruto I cant do tha….." She was cut off when shino grabbed her arm and started to pull her away." Shino what the hell are you doing he's going to die."
Shino pulled down his sunglasses and showed ino his eyes for the first time. There were great saddens in them " It is his last wish that we survive and I plan to honor it." Ino understood.
Naruto picked up his blades again and looked at his teammates. " Thanks shino and make sure you protect Ino."
Shino picked up saskue and kiba before turning back to look at naruto " I'll protect her no matter what." he took a second to wipe the tears out of his eyes before he started to run.
Ino looked back at the boy she use to think was a loser. " Naruto you truly are strong." She then grabbed sakura and tried to catch up to shino.
" Oh how touching But I think it time you died." The pale skinned ninja threatened
Naruto just glared at the older nin " I don't think so." Naruto tightened his grip on his swords and with his last bit of strength charged at the grass nin.
The pale skinned nin started to Laugh evilly " Kanashibari no Jutsu (Temporary Body Paralysis Technique)." This jutsu stopped naruto In his tracks " Can't move can you. Well that's to bad." The grass nin proceeded to take naruto swords out of his hands " Nice swords." He then looked at the engravings on both swords " Hmm the will of fire, what a sack of shit." he then started to laugh again " Ha ha I guess I should tell you the name of your killer it's Orochiramaru former Konoha Nin" He then stabbed naruto in the stomach with his own swords.
As naruto's world started to fade into blackness all he could think of was. At least shino and ino are safe. It doesn't matter if I die as long as their safe