A/N I wasn't going to write this chapter yet but someone sent me a pm about my fan art competition. He wanted to know how to send me the pictures so I originally said to post it online somewhere but I'm going to change that. I have created a Gmail account for you to send me any pics you may draw. The account is on my profile.

I will choose a winner at when I upload the next chapter, which will be sometime next week depending on how many pictures I get sent.

So without further ado here is the beginning of the chunin exams!

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Demon/Summon Speech"

'Demon/Summon Thought'

"Jutsu"

Chapter 10 - Welcome to the Exams

Team 8 all arrived at the academy at the same time; they looked to each other and nodded.

"Hinata can you tell me where the most people are inside right now?" Asked Naruto, Hinata nodded before activating her Byakugan.

"They seem to be on the second floor, surrounding a genjutsu." Informed Hinata.

"Then it would be logical for us to avoid the second floor altogether." Droned out Shino. The others nodded before they all jumped up onto the wall and ran to an open window on the third floor.

When they reached the door marked 301 they saw Kurenai waiting for them.

"Good you all showed up, if one of you hadn't then I wouldn't have been allowed to let you in. But that isn't the case so go in and face the first portion of the chunin selection exams." Said Kurenai as she disappeared in a classic body flicker. Her team looked at each other before Naruto pushed the door open.

As soon as they stepped through the door they were bombarded with killing intent. They didn't even flinch, after being on a battlefield with Zabuza; killing intent of this level didn't affect them.

Naruto shrugged before leaning against a wall, his team following him. They waited as the rest of the rookie teams showed up. When team 7 showed up Sasuke sent a glare at Naruto, he was covered in bruises and his eyes kept flickering from his normal black to sharingan red.

Before he could do anything he was jumped on by a blur of blonde hair. Naruto silently laughed as he saw Sasuke almost raped by Ino.

Shikamaru and Choji came and sat with team 8.

"So troublesome." Exclaimed Shikamaru before he sat down and tried to get to sleep.

"Hey you guys should keep quiet, there are a lot of hostile teams here and you rookies being loud just make you targets." Said a genin that none of them recognized.

"Who are you?" questioned Sakura.

"I'm Kabuto, and if there's anything you wanna know about these exams just ask." Said the now named Kabuto.

"Why would you know about the exams, is this your second try?" asked Sakura.

"Umm it's my seventh" Replied Kabuto sheepishly. Naruto stopped listening after that, Shino would tell him if anything important was said, so instead he turned to investigate the assembled genin.

Not many teams got his attention but a few did, he saw the Suna team, the red head giving off as much killing intent as Zabuza. He saw a Konoha team with a Hyuuga, a girl who looked like a panda and a boy with a bowl haircut and massive eyebrows. Even though they looked stupid he could feel the power and confidence that they were exuding. And the final team to catch his eye were from Iwa, the only team from Iwa in fact.

There were two boys and a girl. The first boy was tall and thin wearing brown shorts and a grey t-shirt with maroon sandals. He had a pale complexion and bright blonde hair cut into a short ponytail. His arms were covered in burn scars from the elbows down. Some fresh and some old. The second boy was short and stocky, his build reminiscent of a boulder. He had extremely tanned skin, looking like he had stayed in the sun a little too long, and his hair was mud brown. He wore brown pants and a black t-shirt with the same maroon sandals. The girl was very different from her companions. She seemed to enjoy matching her clothing to her physical characteristics. Her hair was green and she wore a t-shirt that matched. Her eyes were purple and her shorts matched them. She had the same sandals as her team. She was about the same height as Naruto with an average build for a kunoichi.

They were studying him as intently as he was studying them and they were giving off as much killing intent as Gaara. Naruto shrugged it off to hear Sasuke.

"I want to know about Rock Lee of Konoha and Naruto Uzumaki of Konoha." Kabuto started to reach for his cards.

"And can you tell me about Gaara of the desert." Naruto cut in.

"You know all their names, that makes it so much easier." Said Kabuto as he pulled out three cards.

"First up is Gaara of the sand. Son of the fourth Kazekage, his teammates are his siblings. He has been on 40 C rank missions, 20 B rank and 2 A rank. He has returned from every mission without a scratch. I don't know anything about his abilities because he's from another village.

Next is Rock Lee of Konoha. His teammates are Neji Hyuuga and Tenten. He has completed 200 D rank missions, 50 C ranks and 1 B rank. He graduated the last of his class and can't use nin or gen jutsu, but his Taijutsu is off the charts.

And finally Naruto Uzumaki. His teammates are Hinata Hyuuga and Shino Aburame. He has completed 30 C rank missions and 1 A rank mission. His genjutsu is non-existent but his nin and tai jutsu are off the charts, it is also listed that he is the fastest genin in Konoha." Finished Kabuto, Naruto's eyes narrowed; only the Hokage had called him the fastest genin and it was never put on his record.

Kabuto continued to talk while Naruto looked around the room to see if anyone had been listening. Apparently most of the room had been. Gaara looked intrigued or possibly hungry. The Iwa team were doubling their killing intent and the guy with the bowl haircut, Rock Lee if that Kabuto kid was right, had flames burning in his eyes and looked like he was going to challenge him to a race or something.

But before he could the team from Oto attacked Kabuto with some form of sound wave attack. Before anything else could happen though the front of the room was engulfed in smoke.

"My name is Ibiki Morino and I'm the procter of the first exam. And there will be no fighting unless told otherwise by a procter!" Yelled out a scarred man in the middle of a group of chunin.

"Now come and grab a number that will be your assigned seat. You have 30 seconds to get a number, get to a seat and wait for the test to start." Called out Ibiki, for a second no one moved until he looked at his watch and tapped it twice. Almost everyone in the room made a mad dash for the chunin procters. The Iwa team, the Suna team and Team 8 all calmly collected their numbers and found their seats.

Naruto found himself sitting next to Sakura.

'Great the banshee. Couldn't I have been put next to Hinata-chan?'

Ibiki went on to explain the rules.

'Hmm only losing two points for cheating, and these questions are way too hard for genin to answer. This is for information gathering rather than book smarts.' As Naruto finished this line of thought he noticed Sakura was furiously writing down the answers. He looked around to see what had appeared to be a team of genin before were really chunin in disguise, filling out the answers slowly so they could be copied. He noticed Sasuke using his Sharingan to copy answers. He saw Neji using his Byakugan and assumed Hinata would be as well. Gaara had an eye made of sand giving him answers. Kiba had Akamaru getting answers. Shino was using his bugs and finally Tenten and Lee were using mirrors to convey information.

Naruto smirked and faked a sneeze, when he sneezed he released a lot of fuuton chakra causing test papers to fly into the air. During the confusion he darted around the room and collected the answers before racing back to his seat and writing them down. Once everyone had gotten their papers and a few were disqualified for blatantly reading other peoples papers.

Naruto looked around and was glad to see that no one had seen him move, not even Sakura.

'Hmm the kid is certainly fast, I barely tracked him as he moved through the papers.' Mused Ibiki. Naruto leaned back confident that he could pass. He sensed someone looking at him but when he couldn't find who he gave up on it.

Two rows behind Naruto sat Kadomari Wakashima, the kunoichi from Iwa. Her clan had a dojutsu, marked by their purple eyes. It allowed them a watered down version of the sharingan's predictive abilities, she had seen Naruto move, albeit only just but she had definitely seen him disappear from his seat then reappear shortly after. It confirmed her teams fear that he was somehow related to the Yellow Flash. She would have to tell her teammates later.

The rest of the test went pretty smoothly. Kankurou had gone to the toilet near the end and had come back just in time for the final question.

"Ahh good, did you have fun playing with your dolls?" asked Ibiki making Kankurou sweat. "Now time for the final question, we have a few new rules for this one. You don't have to answer the question. If you don't want to answer the question then you fail."

"Why would we quit then?" yelled out Kiba, Ibiki grinned evilly.

"Because if you get the question wrong then you fail and can never take the exams again." Stated Ibiki.

"You can't do that, there are people who have failed before!" yelled out Kiba again.

"I wasn't the proctor for those exams." Said Ibiki, smirking like a madman. At first no one moved until one genin cracked, in reality it was one of the disguised chunin. Him and his team were kicked out and many followed. Naruto looked down to see Hinata slowly raising her hand. He raised his hand and slammed it onto the table.

"I don't care if you stop me from becoming chunin, to become Hokage is my dream and nothing says that I have to be a certain rank before I can achieve my dream. So stop wasting my time and give us the question." Naruto yelled. Ibiki looked around the room and saw looks of determination on everyone present.

"Well then if none of you are going to quit then….. you all pass the first exam." Stated Ibiki calmly.

"What about the 10th question!" called out Kiba.

"There was no 10th question, rather the decision to stay was the question. As a chunin you will be given harder missions with little to no information. Can you say no thanks and live to fight another day. No as a chunin you must continue onwards and either finish the mission or die trying." Explained Ibiki.

"Then what was the point of the first 9?" asked Temari.

"As ninja, our main profession is to lie and steal. Information is worth more than gold to a village. If you can't collect information without being caught then you don't deserve to be a chunin. But false information is even worse." When Ibiki said this he untied the bandana around his head to reveal scars covering his head. "This is the price of misinformation."

Before he could say anymore a black ball shot through the window. Kunai launched from it and embedded the roof and walls. It unrolled to reveal a banner, it said "The Sexy and Single Anko Miterashi. Proctor of the Second Exam." Ibiki sweatdropped.

"This is no time to be celebrating, it's on to the second exam." Exclaimed Anko, most of the guys in the room were trying to contain nose bleeds directed at the scantily clad proctor.

"Anko read the mood, no one's celebrating." Ibiki stated, Anko sweatdropped before counting the genin remaining.

"78 left, wow Ibiki you must be losing you touch." Anko said.

"Or we have an incredibly talented bunch this year." Countered Ibiki.

"Oh well I'll cut the numbers in half. Everyone follow me to your next exam at training ground 44. If you aren't there in 5 minutes then you will fail." Said Anko as she jumped out the window, for a second no one moved, then everyone except team 8 launched themselves out the window.

"Wow Anko-sensei is being pretty nice, she hasn't made anyone bleed yet." Said Hinata.

"The key word is yet." Said Shino in his monotone voice. Naruto just shrugged before creating two clones that picked up his teammates and sprinted towards the forest of death.

A/N I wanted to upload this yesterday but I didn't finish it, oh well. Oh and if anyone is wondering why Hinata called Anko sensei then remember back to wave when I explained how they had been trained to dodge high speed projectiles.

So just to remind you, the winner of the fan art competition will be announced when I upload next. That will be sometime next week.

Now just a little fun fact, I have currently lost my voice. My family think it's hilarious. They keep ringing me for no other reason than to hear me angrily groaning at them over the phone.

Thanks Trigger2332 out!