Chapter.11. So the Chunin Exams Begin!

As we went up the flights of stairs I thought about that man in black. Will I meet him here? If we do meet...he is dead! We finally made it to the second floor, and all of us turned our attention to the 'kids' blocking everyone's way.

"Someone talentless as you," asked a 'kid', "Is really planning to take the Chunin Exam!"
"Why, bother," mocked the other 'kid'.

I saw that Lee was on the floor hurt.

"Please," TenTen said begging, "Let us in."

The 'boy' then slapped TenTen making her fall into the ground.

"That's just cruel," One person whispered/yelled.

"We're just trying to spare you!"

"The Chunin Exam is incredibly difficult...and we should know. We've failed three times so far. There are people who made it, then immediately gave up being Shinobi...others who ended up crippled...some reduced to vegetables..we've seen it all!"

'Well I'm going to get up in it,' I thought walking over to them.

"Mark," said Sakura trying to stop me.

"Still, it isn't nice to hit a lady," I said looking at them with a smile.

"What?"

"Didn't your mother teach you manners?"

"Don't bring my mother in this!"

"Sorry, but if its true, then its true."
"I see what you're up to Mark," said Sasuke coming beside me, "This isn't room 301...its a illusion, drop it now. I have business on the third floor."

"What is he talking about?"

"Who knows?"

Both of the 'boys' then started to laugh.

"So you figured that out, eh?"

Sasuke only smirked and then looked at Sakura.

"It was easy, right Sakura?"

Sakura looked up surprised.

"You were probably the first to notice it."

"Huh?"

"You're the most analytical and the best in our cell...at understanding that art of illusion."

Sakura then blushed and put a smile on her face.

"Of course I notice it. Obviously we're still on the second floor."

"Yay," I cheered.

"Hey...not bad," said the kid with spiky hair, "But it just seeing through it isn't(then he went to kick Sasuke) enough!"

Sasuke then went to kick the kid with spiky hair until a green blur came in front of them and caught both of their legs. Everyone but me looked in shocked. I shouldn't made Sasuke not do that. Lee then sighed.

"Hey," Neji said looking at Lee with a serious look, "That's not what we agreed! You're the one who insisted we should avoid attention to ourselves."

Rock Lee then looked at Sakura why blushing, I looked at his teammates to see TenTen moving her head side to side, and Neji having a face that said not again. Lee then walked to Sakura and looked at her blushing.

" Um-hi. My name is Rock Lee. You're Sakura, right? Would you like to go out with me? I'll protect you with my life!"

I then sighed as Lee put on a smile with his thumb up. Sakura is going to say no, sorry buddy but she is in love with Sasuke.

"No...way. You are way out of hand!"

Naruto then started to laugh, I smiled

"Hey you! What's your name?"

"It's common courtesy to give your own name first."

"You're a Rookie aren't you," Neji asked, "How old are you?"

"I don't have to tell you anything."

"Come on guys," Sakura said pulling Sasuke's and Naruto's arm.

I quickly followed behind knowing that we were going to see that fight to where Sasuke will lose. You all know this part.

To the scene where Sasuke and Rock Lee fight.

I stood there sighing, beside Sakura why Naruto laying passed out on the floor, with of course Sasuke fighting.

"We don't have time for this," I said looking at Lee fighting Sasuke.

"He said that he would finish it in five minutes," said Sakura..

"Doesn't look like it to me."

We then saw Sasuke get kicked into the air. I made myself look in amazement. It looks cooler in real life.

"Aren't you going to do anything Mark," Sakura yelled at me.

"Why I want to know what happens next."

A windmill then landed a tip of Lee's tape on the wall.

"Halt," a Turtle yelled.

Lee then stop in the middle of the air and left Sasuke to fall.

"Sasuke," Sakura yelled running over to him in time to catch him.

"Even the Sharingan didn't help," I whispered.

I looked at Naruto only to see him Surprised that Sasuke had gotten beaten. Sakura was yelling at Sasuke to see if he was alright. Which I thought was stupid. Does he look alright? No.

"You know the rules, Lee," the Turtle yelled, "That move is strictly forbidden!"

"P-please forgive me...I was only.."

The Turtle gave Lee the death stare.

"I...I wouldn't have used the Reversal move...I never meant..."

"Hey...hey," Naruto yelled running over to us the pointing at the Turtle, "That thing over there...that's a Turtle...right?"

"Obviously!"

"Naruto...you idiot," I whispered.

"So what's the deal here? Can Turtles be ninja?"

"Don't ask stupid questions!"

"Yes Naruto they can," I yelled.

"Oh."

"You fool," the Turtle yelled, why Lee flinched, "Do you think I care about your feeble excuses? Consider the repercussions of a Shinobi-Warrior-any Shinobi-baldly explaining all his secrets!"

"Y-yes sir!"

"I hope you are properly prepared?"

"Yes sir..."

"Well then...he's all yours, Master Guy!"

"Ah, the exuberance of youth," Guy said doing a pose, "All of you are full of it."

Everyone but Lee and I stood grossed out.

"He's got the biggest eyebrows I ever seen!"

"They're almost...alive...and that same dorky 'do...they're...under-brows."

"I've never seen anything like 'em," Naruto said.

"H-hey," yelled Lee pumping his fist, "Don't try to make fun of Guy Sensei!"

"Oh, Shut up! I don't even know what to make of all the freaks who keep popping in here!"

"You're a good one to be talking," I said looking at Naruto with a serious face.

"Lee!"

"Oh! Uh, yes Sir.."

"Idiot," Guy yelled punching Lee in the face.

"What!"

"You...you.."

"Guy Sensei!"

We stood there starring at the as tears starting down their faces.

"Guy Sensei...I...I.."

"That's enough Lee," Guy yelled hugging Lee,"Not one more word."

Everyone is still grossed out.

"Hey we don't have enough time to watch your love fest here," I said looking at Guy and Lee, "You can do it after the exam. Even though it give a warm, fuzzy feeling."

"Yes you are right," Guy said standing up, "Go on my star Pupil!"

'He still didn't listen.'

Guy looked at us with a serious face.

"So how is Kakashi?"

"Doing fine really," I said.

"You know Kakashi Sensei," Sasuke asked.

"They sure do," I said looking at Sasuke, "Their arch-rivals."

"What; you are kidding right," asked Sakura.

"Nope."

"Our score is fifty to forty-nine," Guy said popping behind us.

Everyone but me turned around surprised.

"Hey," Naruto yelled, "How'd he...?"

"I'm stronger than he is," Guy said putting he's thumb up with a smile.

"As you can see Guy Sensei is totally amazing!"

"I know Lee started this fight, but take pity on his old teacher. For the sake of my own self-respect forgive him. You and Lee should head up to the classroom now."

Guy then threw a Kunai at the windmill in the wall making it fall off.

Lee quickly wrapped it around his hand. And took off with nothing else to say. I heard Sasuke's fist make a crunch sound, like he was crushing a wall nut.

"Sasuke," I said before anyone else could say anything, "Save your anger for later, you know you can beat anyone when your up for it,so next time show him what you got...plus you two stop feeling sorry for him, we have a Exam to pass!"

"Right!"

"Yeah."

"That's right!"

"Naruto? Sakura? Mark? Let's go!"

"YEAH!"

In front of room 301. Meeting up with Kakashi.

"Glad you made it after all, Sakura," Kakashi said as we made it over to him, "This way you all qualify to apply for the Chunin Selection Exam."

"What do you mean," asked Sakura.

"The way the test is set up, it can only be taken by three-person cells," Kakashi added.

"But, Kakashi Sensei you said it was up to each of us to decide whether or not to apply. Were you lying?"

"I said what I had to, to keep your partners from pressuring you into coming along. Even if you had no interest in applying, one word from Sasuke...and you'd have come along and gone through the motions, though your heart wouldn't have been in it."

"What would have happened if Sasuke and Naruto had shown up without me?"

"I'd have washed them out right here. None of you would have gotten past this without both of the others. But you're all here because you want to be. And I'm very proud of you. Now get in there! But Mark stay with me for a minute."

I stood where I was as Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura went on without me.

"Yes Kakashi Sensei," I asked.

"I have some good and bad news to tell you. Which one do you want first?"

"I guess the good."

"Well the good news is that you can take the test, but the bad news is, you have to take it on you're own."

"What," I grasped, "But this is a three cell test isn't it?"

"Yes, but the Hokage said that you would be okay on your own. He believes in you, so go in there and show them," he ended with a smile.

'Easy for you to say.'

I then went to open the door to see everyone stare at me as I came in. I quickly looked at my right to see Naruto's team with the rest of the Rookie 9. I walked over and stood next to Naruto to see Kiba and Sasuke talking.

"Hey what did Kakashi want from you," asked Naruto.

"Nothing special."

"Hey who is he!" asked Kiba pointing at me.

"Oh pardon me, my name is Mark DragonHunter at your service."

Everyone then started to tell me their names and I already knew who they were.

"Would you guys," asked Kabuto coming over to us, "Do us all a favor and just shut up?

Everyone then looked at Kabuto why I gave him the glare.

"You three gangs of would-be hotshots are all Genin, right? Kids barely out of the ninja academy? All wet-behind-the-ears and runny-nosed! This isn't a school trip, you know."

"Who the h*ll do you think you are," said Ino.

"Name's Kabuto. So what? You kids need to open your eyes."

"Why?"

Everyone turned around to see everyone ninja in there glaring at us.

"Watch out for the group behind you. They're Amagakure—Those-Who-Hide-In-The-Rain- and they've got very short fuses. Everyone's on edge, waiting to take the Exam. I give you a heads-up before someone snaps and beats the crap out of you. But it's probably unavoidable like all Rookies, you think you already know everything. I remember what it was like."

"Kabuto," asked Sakura, "Are you saying this is the second time you've applied?"

"Not second...seventh. Twice a year for...hm, going on four years now."

"Wow-then you've got a lot of experience with what we can expect," said Sakura in amazement.

"I guess so."

"All right," Naruto yelled, "Kabuto, buddy...you are the man!"

'Yeah right. All he is doing is lying to us.'

"The least I can do is give you sweet little babies some vital intelligance on what you're in for," Kabuto said pulling out his cards and showing us, "...with these Shinobi Skill cards."

"Shinobi Skill cards?"

"To put it simply, they contain information about the skills we use, transformed into symbols and burned into the cards using Chakra. It took me four years to collect all the intelligence needed for this Exam. In all, there are almost 200 cards.

'Yeah right is liar!'

"They look blank don't they? The only way you can read the data on the cards," Kabuto added putting Chakra into the cards, "Is by using my own personal Chakra. Each set is linked to its possessor. For example, card like this one."

A map then appeared on card.

"It's some kind of combination map and bar graph, in three dimensions! What kind of intelligence is this?"

"It shows how many applicants each Shinobi nation is sending to this session of the Chunin Exams. Like The Sand has 30, Rain has 21, Grass has 6, Water Fall has 6, Tree Leaves(us) have 88, and sound has 3 because their a newly born village."

"Do you also have Dossier cards," Sasuke asked, "Cards for each individual applicant?"

"Why? Someone here you have a particular interest in? I'll admit these are far from complete, but I've burned a set of dossier cards for the current pool of applicants...including your team. If you share any data you have on this person who interest you, I'll be happy to look him up and let you know what I have so far."

I'm tired of listening to his D*mn mouth! I turned away from looking at what Kabuto was doing to the ninja around me. There's a lot. Probably 153 Genin all in this room...they'll be cut in half by the time the second part of the exam is over. I grinned, this is going to be awesome!

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki," Naruto yelled from behind me, "And none of you are gonna beat me! You got that!"

I turned around at naruto to see him grinning.

"Bill board tell you're boyfriend to shut up," yelled Ino.

"He is not my boyfriend Ino-pig!"

Oh great, look what you caused Naruto.

"Can you say that loud," said Kiba smirking.

"That idiot, he just turned everyone is this room our enemies in just one sentence," said Shikamaru, "What a pain."

"What are you blathering about," yelled Sakura running over to Naruto nearly choking him.

"But I'm telling to truth Sakura!~"

"Don't pay attention to my friend, he just needs his medication."

Sakura then started yelling at Naruto. Great there goes more of our team work. And here come the Sound Ninja.

The sound Ninja then came out of nowhere and came after Kabuto. I watched as he dodged Dosu's attack. Then he's glass broke and you know what else happened.

"Would everyone shut up," A voiced boomed with smoke poping up around the room.

"What," people yelled.

I saw Ibiki then show up with the rest of the people helping out during the exam.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting," said Ibiki, "My name is Ibiki Morino. I'm the protoctor and chief examier for the first part of the exam!"

Sorry people that I haven't written in a long time, it is just band and ROTC just got a head of me, but since I have a three day weekend I'm going to try writing more chapters to repay for my lateness.