AN* First off, I am sorry that this is such a short chapter, but I didn't want to combine this one and the next chapter so I just kept them seperated. Next matter is the reviews that I recieved.
Volos: Honestly I am not too sure. I have the makings for either one, but this will mainly be a NaruHina fic.
Jrf Steel: That was a typo. I caught it later on and made sure that it doesn't pop up again. And if you see any other mistakes do let me know. I am only human and a machine is only as smart as the human that uses it.
narutoxyugitoxtentenftw: Don't like, don't read, it is that simple.
Ex10: Well they are always comparing Kushina to Naruto in the canon, so I figured make her act like that. She can be serious when she needs to be but she likes to have fun. Besides after just being reunited with her son she is going to be a little weird.
wolfsrainrules: Yeah, I like him working in the T&I department. Don't expect to see him there too often in the writing, but I will try to have him there every now and then.
Ashleythetiger: Haku is female in this. I always thought Haku was a girl and so whenever I do Naruto fanfics I make Haku female if I have the chance.
golfaholic: I know what you mean with the harem thing. I made that mistake with my first naruto fanfic and it was just awful. I am working on revising that one at the moment. And since I am still undecided on whether or not this will be a harem fic I do not plan on having the CRA in there.
Narutodragon: Thank you for the praise. I hoped that I did a good job. One of the hardest things was deciding which worlds to go to and how many of them. I thought I did a good job but praise like that makes me feel a lot better about it.
OK, now onto what you are all here for, the chapter. And leave your reviews at the end.
First Exam
Team 8 arrived early on Sunday, making their way up to the third floor, stopping at the massive crowd on the second floor.
"This is kind of sad." Naruto noted as he started walking on the ceiling, heading to the staircase.
"Where are you going?" a genin blocking the door shouted.
"To take the exam." Naruto answered as the rest of his team followed suit and were walking on the ceiling behind him. The genin all started to realize that this was only the second floor and that the exam was on the third. Once they were past the road block they saw Kurenai waiting for them.
"Well you are all here, so best of luck and no matter how you do in these exams I am proud of you three." Kurenai smiled as the genin nodded, walking inside where they saw that there were already tons of genin in the room, all of them staring at the three new comers.
"What are you looking at?" Naruto asked, flaring his KI, scaring several dozen people in the room who had never felt such a killer intent, with the exception of two.
"What KI. He has the look of power about him, one who seeks strength. Perhaps I should mark him as well. Kukukuku." A female Kusa nin thought.
"Such KI. He will help prove my existence without a doubt." Gaara thought, his own KI rising. Moving to the side the rest of the genin 9 arrived, making a huge scene.
"Sasuke-kun!" Ino shouted as she glomped him "Have you missed me?"
"Get off of him Ino-pig!" Sakura shouted.
"Kami." Naruto sighed "I'm about to shoot both of them and spare us the headache."
"At least you don't have to listen to her all the time." Shikamaru sighed. While Naruto talked with Shikamaru, Kiba had walked up to Hinata.
"Hey Hinata, how would you like to go out with me once we are done here?" he asked.
"I'm sorry Kiba, but I will have to decline." Hinata replied.
"Aw come on!" Kiba grinned "Just give me a chance."
"I'm sorry Kiba but I'm not interested." Hinata sighed.
"Just one date!" he growled.
"Kiba, stop." Hinata snapped.
"Leave her be." Naruto growled as he looked at the Inuzuka.
"Or what?" Kiba grinned "You gonna fight me?"
"No." Naruto replied as Kiba's grin widened "I'm going to kill you."
"Like hell!" Kiba growled as he tried to punch the blonde. As soon as he moved Naruto slipped under his fist, a gun drawn and pressed against his ribs.
"Want to find out what happens at point blank range?" Naruto asked as he pressed the gun harder into Kiba's ribs.
"You wouldn't!" Kiba growled. All that was heard a cry of pain as Kiba went flying into the ceiling from the gunshot.
"Don't doubt me." Naruto sighed.
"You really shouldn't cause such a scene." an older teen remarked as he walked over.
"And who are you?" Sasuke asked.
"Oh, my name is Kabuto Yakushi. I'm what you would call a veteran of this exam."
"Really?" Sakura asked "How many times have you taken it?"
"Well this is my eighth time."
"Wow you suck." Naruto noted.
"It's not that, it's just that these exams are very difficult." Kabuto sighed "But because I've been through here so many times I have plenty of information on the other contenders, in these ninja cards." Smiling the older nin held up a stack of cards "These have country information, as well as personal information."
"All competitors?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah." Kabuto nodded.
"Give me Rock Lee, Gaara no Subaku, and Naruto Uzumaki." Sasuke grinned.
"No fair. You even know their names." Kabuto sighed as he took out the cards. "OK, first is Rock Lee. He has completed over fifty D rank missions, and twelve C rank missions. He has little to no ninjutsu or genjutsu skills, however he has extraordinary taijutsu skills, these are said to rival most chunin in abilities. Next is Gaara no Subaku. He has completed an unknown amount of D rank missions, over twenty C rank and one B rank. And it's said he has never gotten injured while on any of these missions."
"That's interesting." Sasuke nodded.
"Lastly is Naruto Uzumaki." Kabuto began as he felt a gun against his head.
"This is where your little show ends." Naruto noted "Now give me that card, or I will blow your head off of your shoulders."
"Think you can?" Kabuto asked.
"You try anything and I pull both triggers." Naruto replied as the others looked to see that his other gun was also out, aimed behind him at the Oto nin who were about to make a move on the distracted genin and Kabuto's teammates.
"Alright. Here you go." Kabuto nodded as he handed him the card. Naruto looked at it, pumping chakra in to see that it was a very accurate depiction of his abilities "How did you get this information?"
"Hard work." Kabuto replied as the proctor arrived.
"All right you little shit stains, take your seats!" Ibiki roared as the genin moved around the room, with Naruto moving past Ibiki.
"Make sure to look at my test." Naruto said as he took his seat. Ibiki then explained the test and how they would have fifty minutes to answer the questions. Naruto looked at his paper and almost went ballistic. The test was hardest thing that he had ever seen.
"Hey Kyubi?"
"What Kit?"
"Can you answer any of these questions?"
There was a few moments of silence as the demon lord looked at each of the questions.
"Nope. And why would I need to know it, I'm a demon lord after all."
"Damn."
Looking back at the test he noted that everyone was trying to cheat in one way or another, so Naruto went through his mind to try and think of something that would be useful, but found nothing. Shrugging to himself he wrote on the test, and placed the nin card next to the writing. Closing his eyes he placed his head down on the desk as he waited for the fifty minutes to pass. As time went by many genin were getting taken out, most for cheating in such an obvious way. Once the time was up Ibiki told them the rules relating to the final question.
"So you mean if we choose to take the question then we might be stuck as genin forever?" Ino asked in shock.
"That's right. So what will you do?" Ibiki asked, watching several people giving up and leaving. Once about half the class was gone he looked around and saw nothing but determination.
"All right, you all pass." Ibiki grinned as the genin looked confused.
"What are you talking about?" Kiba shouted.
"The tenth question was to see if you were all ready to take that leap of faith. There are some missions where we will not have any or very little information, or even worse, false information, and you are assigned to retrieve something, but you don't know the amount of enemy nin, the location of the item, or even the skill level of your opponent's. So do you take this mission, or wait for a safer one? YOU take it of course! Anyone who would back down for the sake of protecting their own hides is worse then trash and doesn't deserve to become a chunin."
"So what was the point of the test?" Temari asked.
"To test your information gathering skills." Ibiki replied "That test was far too hard for a normal genin to do on their own, so we had a few chunin sitting around the room to offer you the correct answers if you could find them. Now your next proctor is..." Just then a large black sphere came crashing through the window and opened up to reveal a banner held up by kunai knives. The banner read "Anko Mitarashi, Sexy Kunochi."
"All right. I'm Anko Mitarashi, your second proctor." Anko shouted.
"SWEET!" Naruto shouted.
"Well if it isn't my favorite blonde. I see you got past the first test." Anko smiled "But so did too many of you. Well, doesn't matter, I will be cutting your numbers in half. Now all of you follow me to training ground 44." Leaping out the window that she had just broken the genin all moved quickly to try and keep up with the insane jonin. Once they arrived at the training ground Anko turned to face them.
"All right! This is training ground 44, also known as The Forest of Death." she grinned as she got the desired effect on almost all of the genin, except Naruto, the Suna team, the Oto team, and the Kusa team "This exam will have each of you carrying one of these scrolls, either a heaven scroll or an earth scroll. Your objective is to get both of them and make it to the tower in the center of the forest within five days. Any of you who open your scrolls before you get to the tower, or don't get there at all within the five days, will be taken out of the exams. Now everyone fill out a liability waver and then you are allowed to get your scroll. Then head to your assigned gate." Each team nodded and made the process of getting their selves ready, while Naruto had Hinata and Shino wait til the end, watching each team, with Hinata using her Byakugan to watch them as they left. Once almost all of the teams had left Team 8 went up to get their scroll.
"You were watching them weren't you?" Anko asked with a grin.
"And if we were?" Naruto asked with an equally large grin.
"Then I am going to win the pool."
"What pool?" Hinata asked.
"There's a bet among the jonin about what teams are going to finish and how quickly. At the moment you three are the favorite Konahagakure team. And the prediction is that you will be there by day four at the latest. I said by day three."
"Well I'd hate to disappoint you Anko-sensei." Naruto grinned "I'll make sure we get there by day three."
"That's my gaki." Anko grinned as she kissed his cheek "Now get to your gate and go kick some ass!" As they left Hinata shot Anko a glare that said to back off. All Anko did was stick her tongue out as she went back to work.
Once all the genin were at their gates they were announced to enter and start their second test.
