Rika-chan24- Hey guy's sorry for taking so long to update. I have been very busy the past two weeks. So here is the next chapter. I hope you like it! The Chunin Exams are finally here!

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Naruto walked down the streets of Konoha a few weeks later, thinking to himself. "What day was it that we met Gaara? It was so long ago I can't remember what day before the Chunin Exams it was. There are only a few days left until the first test. Kakashi proved that by giving us our entry forms this morning."

Naruto paused in his walking; Konohamaru was following him, again. It was really hard not to miss the giant square box with eye holes. Naruto grinned, "It must be today then!"

"Alright Konohamaru you guys can stop following me now." Naruto said turning around to face the square rock.

A huge puff of smoke covered the box a second later, and coughing could be heard through the smoke.

"You went overboard with the smoke bombs again." Moegi's voice called through the smoke.

Konohamaru completely ignored her statement and shouted to Naruto.

"Ha, only our Boss would be able to detect us!"

Naruto sighed, "Konohamaru you guys were in a square box with eye holes, everyone would have noticed that if it was following them. Especially if they were a ninja"

Konohamaru pouted for a split second before he came up with an idea.

"Naruto-Nii-san can you play ninja with us? Please! You said you would last time." Konohamaru asked. Udon and Moegi nodded in agreement with Konohamaru.

Before Naruto could reply he was interrupted by someone calling to him. Naruto turned around to find the genin of Team 8.

"Hey Naruto!" Kiba called to him with a grin. Akumaru barked a second later with his own greeting.

"Oh hi guys, what are you doing here?" Naruto asked. "I am pretty sure they weren't here last time around."

"We just came back from team training." Shino explained as he pushed is glasses up.

"Hey, what's going on?" Ino's voice called out.

Naruto, the Konohamaru corps and Team 8 turned to see Ino walking up to them with Sakura and the rest of Team 10.

Sakura gave him an apologetic look. "She probably didn't plan for Ino being here either." Naruto thought.

"We just bumped into each other. What are you guys doing?" Hinata asked.

"Oh, we ran into Sakura and she was looking for Naruto. So we decided to help." Ino replied.

"More like you dragged us along." Shikamaru commented with a yawn. Choji nodded in agreement with Shikamaru as he ate out of a bag of chips.

"Hey Naruto-Nii-san! We were talking to you first!" Konohamaru shouted, clearly showing his anger by the tone in his voice.

Naruto turned back to the Konohamaru corps. "Why does everyone decided to show up now?!" Naruto thought.

"Kit, the Shukaku host is near. I can sense them." Kurama's voice rang through his head.

"I know Kurama, I can sense them too." Naruto replied.

"I am sorry Konohamaru; I didn't mean to ignore you three. Let's start right now." Naruto began.

"You have a ten second head start; your goal is to keep away from me." Naruto grinned.

"What only ten seconds! We won't get that far."

"Nine."

"Eight"

"Seven" Naruto counted down.

Konohamaru's eyes widened before taking off down the street with Udon and Moegi following close behind.

The others chuckled at the scene. "Naruto hasn't acted like this in a while." Shikamaru thought. The blond ninja had dismissed his childish side since Team 7 came back from their mission in Wave.

"Six, five." Naruto murmured.

Naruto was down the street as soon as he heard the crash. It was finally time to meet Gaara and his siblings.

Kiba turned his head in that direction about the same time Naruto had. The others were confused why Naruto had stopped counting and left four seconds too early.

"Something happened." Kiba replied, before heading in the direction Naruto was going. Sakura knew exactly what had happened. She gave a glance to Shikamaru and Shino before following Kiba. The others didn't take long to follow after her as well.

Naruto rounded the corner, and found exactly what he thought he would see. Kankuro was holding Konohamaru by his collar, yelling at him about bumping into people. Temari was just shaking her head at her brother from behind him.

"Hey! Let the kid go. You shouldn't be attacking the Hokage's grandson. You could start a war you know." Naruto told the sand-nin.

"Naruto-Nii-san!" Moegi and Udon, who were standing in front of Kankuro, ran towards him and the two quickly hid behind his legs.

"Why should I care?" "This kid ran into me." Kankuro grumbled.

"Kankuro just let the kid go. You are going to get us in trouble." Temari explained to her brother.

"I think you should let him go, you are outnumbered." Shikamaru's voice called from behind Naruto. Team 8, 10 and Sakura had finally caught up with him.

"Man, more leaf kids." Kankuro said.

"Fine"

Kankuro dropped Konohamaru, who immediately ran to Naruto once he got up off the ground.

"You genin don't look like much. I think you would all lose pretty easily against us." Kankuro gloated.

"I wouldn't say that if I were you." Sasuke's voice called from the top of the fence.

"You obviously don't know who you are messing with." Neji voice followed a second later. Everyone looked up to the top of the fence. Both Neji and Sasuke were standing there with their arms crossed. Lee and Tenten jumped over the fence a second later landing next to Choji and Hinata.

"Not only did Sasuke get a cool entrance again, but now Neji got one too." Naruto thought.

"I think I like this time around." Sakura thought with a smile. Last time it was only Team 7.

"They are popping out everywhere." Temari stated.

"Kankuro shut up or I will kill you" A voice called.

"Gaara." Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Neji, Shikamaru and Shino thought.

Everyone else tensed up at the sudden killer instant. A swirl of sand appeared next to Kankuro. Revealing a red-head with a tattoo on his forehead.

"Gaara." Temari and Kankuro addressed him. They were both slightly shaking in fear.

Naruto decided it was time to intervene, the sooner he helped Gaara the better off they would be.

"You guy's must be here for the Chunin exams, were in them too. It's seems it's going to be a lot of fun this year. I hear there is a lot of strong genin participating." Naruto said without a hint of fear.

"What the heck is he doing?" Kiba, Tenten, Ino, Choji and Hinata thought.

"This guy gives off bad vibes." Choji thought referring to Gaara.

"I hope he doesn't get in a fight with them. They look strong." Hinata thought.

"We are. What are your names?" Gaara questioned.

"All of us?" Sakura asked in return.

"No, you two." Gaara replied gesturing to Neji and Sasuke.

"Isn't it better to say your name first?" Neji answered.

"I am Gaara Sabaku; these are my siblings Temari and Kankuro." Gaara answered.

"Neji Hyuga"

"Sasuke Uchiha."

"Why don't we get to introduce ourselves?" Lee asked.

"Were not important enough Lee. It's a silent guy thing I think." Kiba replied.

"What about Shino and Shikamaru then?" Ino asked.

"No clue then." Kiba replied.

"It's alright, that means we will be underestimated by them, then we have the advantage." Naruto replied.

"So Gaara, I have decided that we are now friends. After all, one tailed raccoons and nine tailed foxes have to stick together." Naruto explained as he gave the sand siblings a foxy grin.

"One tailed Raccoons and nine tailed foxes?" The Konoha genin except for the time travelers thought.

Kankuro and Temari caught on real quick, and stiffened a second later. Naruto was just like their brother.

"I don't want to be your friend." Gaara replied, glaring at him.

"Sorry, no take backs. Ask everyone here, they got stuck with me too." Naruto responded.

"Unforchantly." Sasuke replied with a smirk. The other Konoha genin all tried to stifle their laughter at Sasuke's words.

"Shut up Teme." Naruto replied.

"Mother wants your blood, what is your name?" Gaara asked.

A shiver went down everyone's back at his words. The Konoha genin had all quieted.

"I am Naruto Uzumaki! Don't forget it ok. Well I have things to do; I promised some future ninja that I would play with them. See you in the exams!" Naruto replied before leaving with the Konohamaru corps in a swirl of strong winds and water.

Gaara glared at the rest of the Konoha genin before leaving in a swirl of sand a second later.

"I would warn you friend. Gaara will kill him when he gets the chance." Temari told them.

"Naruto will be fine; you don't know him like we do." Sasuke replied as he started to walk away.

"Naruto wasn't lying either. Once he declares you his friend you're stuck with him. It's really not that bad though." Neji added.

"You also don't know Gaara. Gaara doesn't like anyone." Kankuro answered.

"Naruto doesn't give up on anyone, especially someone who needs help. He is always someone you can count on. Naruto will save him I am quite positive. I can never explain it myself, but Naruto has this troublesome power of sorts." Shikamaru explained lazily as if he had said this before.

"Power?" Temari questioned. "We can get a lot of information from these genin." Temari thought.

"Yes, it's hard to explain. Why you may ask? It is because Naruto makes people want to follow him, and become friends with him. He won't ever let you down." Shino explained to the sand siblings.

"Wow, I didn't know Shino thought so highly of Naruto." Kiba thought.

"Whatever, let's go Temari." Kankuro replied as he walked back the way they had come. Temari glanced back at the remaining Konoha genin before following after her brother.

"Something isn't right here; I have never seen such a huge group of genin together like that." Temari thought.

"Why were they asking us stuff about Naruto?" Choji asked once the sand siblings were gone.

"Probably for information, they didn't really get any from us. Naruto gave them information he wanted them to know." Neji explained.

"Are they spies for Orochimaru then?" Hinata asked.

"They might, or they are being used and just don't know it." Shikamaru replied.

"Enough of this talk! We will just show them what we are made of during the exams." Kiba interrupted. Akumaru barked in agreement with his owner.

"Fine, I will see the rest of you at the exams in two days. Bring everything you think you will need. I suggest packing like it's a mission outside the Village." Sakura explained before leaving the group of genin.

"I guess foreheads right, I will see you guys later" Ino said before leaving as well.

Everyone else nodded in goodbye to each other before leaving and going their separate ways.

Two days later

Team 7 met up in front of the Academy at Seven a.m. Sakura turned to the boys.

"Do you think we are ready for this?"

"Were as ready as we can be, whatever happens, happens. We stay as a team and keep everyone safe." Naruto replied.

"This time we are prepared for what is to happen." Sasuke added. "We will be fine."

Sakura nodded before the three of them headed inside to start the Chunnin exams that started everything.

This time the three of them by passed the two chunin blocking the door on the second floor.

They didn't get any interruptions until they were in front of room 301. Kakashi was leaning against the wall next to the door.

"Hello Kakashi-sensei." Sakura addressed him.

Kakashi nodded, "I can now let the three of you in, since all three of you are here. You wouldn't have gotten in if only two of you showed up." Kakashi explained.

The Genin of Team 7 nodded, for they already knew this. Not that Kakashi knew anyways.

"So I think after this exam we should have a talk. Just us," Kakashi said seriously.

"Really, what are we going to talk about?" Sasuke asked.

"Just some things, there is no need to worry about it now." Kakashi replied.

"Alright Kakashi, we will see you later than. This team has some Chunnin exams to win." Naruto said.

Kakashi nodded at them and disappeared in a swirl of leaves to let them through.

"What are we going to do about Kakashi?" Sakura asked once Kakashi was gone.

"Nothing for now, we have more things to worry about." Naruto replied. "Let's go in."

Team 7 walked into the exam room for the first test. There were tons of genin around the room. All of them had turned to them when the door opened, but now they went back to waiting or talking with their team.

"Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, you're finally here. I thought you guys would be the first team out of us the twelve of us to get here, but you guys are the last ones." Ino called to them.

The three genin of turned towards Ino's voice, the rest of the Konoha twelve were walking towards them.

"Hey guys were back together again." Sakura greeted them.

"We are going to dominate this exam!" Kiba shouted, followed by a bark from Akumaru.

"We actually do, normally the home village of the chunnin exams has the most teams." Shikamaru explained.

"Oh." Kiba replied as he scratched the back of his head.

"Hey, you rookies shouldn't be so loud. You are just attracting attention to yourselves. That's not a good thing for the Chunnin exams." A voice addressed them.

The time-travelers of the Konoha 12 knew exactly who the voice belonged too. He cause a lot of problems for them.

"Who the heck are you?" Ino asked.

"I am Kabuto Yakushi, nice to meet all of you." The older teen with gray hair pulled into a low pony tail replied.

"Who said we weren't trying to attract attention?" Naruto suddenly asked him.

"Oh, well I guess that is a way to do it. How about I give you rookies some inside information? After all this is my seventh time taking the chunnin exams" Kabuto suggested.

"Your seventh time? You must suck then." Kiba replied.

"Really? What kind of information?" Choji asked interrupting Kiba.

"I can give you all kinds of information, like how many teams from what village are here." Kabuto replied.

"Even people who are taking the exam for the first time?" Sasuke asked.

"Of course." Kabuto replied.

"How did you get that anyways?" Shino asked.

"I have just seen a lot of the people here before." Kabuto replied quickly. "Why are they asking me so many questions?" Kabuto thought. "Do they know?"

"So are you going to tell us that information?" Sakura asked.

"Oh right, 30 teams from sand, 21 from Rain, 15 from Grass, 12 Waterfall, 3 from Sound, and 72 from the Leaf." Kabuto said after sending chakra to one of his ninja info cards that showed a map of the Elemental nations.

"Sound? I have never heard of that village before." Shikamaru said.

"Yes, they are a new village; there isn't a lot of information about them.

"So you even have information on us too right?" Neji asked.

"I do, do you need information on someone?" Kabuto questioned.

"Yeah, I want information for Naruto Uzumaki." Kiba interrupted Neji.

"This is not good." Sasuke, Sakura, Neji, Shikamaru, Shino thought.

Kabuto pulled out a card and sent chakra to it. "Hmmm, this is quite interesting." Kabuto commented out loud before telling them what was on the card.

"Naruto Uzumaki from Team 7 of the village hidden in the leaves, his teammates are Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno. Their jonin sensei is Kakashi Hatake. They have been on 15 D ranks, and one A-rank mission that was originally a C-rank mission." Taijutsu, and Ninjutsu are really high, Genjutsu is low average. Chakra stamina is really high too." Kabuto explained. "Though there is some information missing from this card."

"What do you mean?" Tenten asked.

"I am not sure, there is just something missing from it." Kabuto replied.

"What is going on, something isn't right?" Kabuto thought looking over the card again.

Almost every single person from the Konoha 12 sensed someone move at a fast pace towards them. Kabuto suddenly jumped back as one of the Sound ninja attacked him. A second later Kabuto's glasses broke and Kabuto was trying to catch his breath.

"If I didn't know he was working with Orochimaru already, I would probably still believe that he was a true leaf shinobi." Sasuke thought as he watched Kabuto cough and catch his breath.

The room's tense atmosphere rose higher, everyone was staring in their direction. Just like the first time they took the Chunnin exams. Luckily the twelve of them were a lot stronger and more confident in themselves.

A cloud of smoke appeared in the front of the room a minute later. Once the smoke cleared it reviled Ibiki, and a group of chunnin. Most of the Konoha 12 recognized Izumo and Kotetsu out of the group of chunin.

"Alright you sissies, let's get this written exam started! I am Ibiki Morino" Ibiki shouted so that the everyone in the room could hear. There were a few grumbled in reply, before Ibiki began to talk again.

"You need to pick a number and find you seat, I will pass out the test once everyone is in their seat." Ibiki added. Once everyone was in their seats, the chunnin began passing out the exam while Ibiki explained the rules of the test.

Once he finished explaining the test, he let the group of genin begin the test. They had 45 minutes to get it done.

Naruto sighed to himself, he was so glad he knew the true meaning of the test this time. Naruto looked over the questions once more, "I still don't know most of these questions." Naruto thought.

Instead of writing answers on to the test, Naruto decided it would be a good idea to write Hokage-Jii a message. Naruto made sure to use code words for specific things.

The Hokage may know they were from the future, but he didn't know the details of what happened the first time. After all who wants to tell someone they die. Though Naruto had a hunch that the third already knew something was going to go wrong.

It wasn't long until the time ran out, and Ibiki began talking about the tenth question.

"Ok, pencils down, I am going to give the choice. You can take the tenth question and risk getting it wrong. If you get the question wrong you will be disqualified and you won't be able to participate in the Chunin exams ever again. If you leave you can try again next time, but your whole team will leave as well." Ibiki explained, face blank of any emotion.

The room was soon filled with many voices talking at once. Suddenly shinobi stated to give up one by one with their teams. It was narrowing down really fast.

"I am going to have to shout again, we need more teams so there is more scrolls to collect." Naruto thought before standing up and slamming his hand down on to the desk in front of him. This caused everyone to turn their attention to him.

"I am not scared! Give me the question, I believe in my teammates I am not going to quit. It doesn't matter if I get stuck as a genin for the rest of my life. I will become Hokage no matter what and protect my precious people." Naruto proclaimed to everyone in the room.

Many people's confidence perked up at Naruto's words. Many people told him he had a way with them. The room sat in silence for a few minutes, waiting to find out what would happen next.

"I see, so is there anyone else who would like to quit?" Ibiki asked, as he searched the room. No one answered him. Naruto's words had strengthened their confidence.

"Well all of you here…pass" Ibiki finally replied. "It seems like this generation of ninja has quite the potential" Ibiki thought.

"What! We just pass like that" Temari shouted as she stood up.

Ibiki nodded before explaining the test and showing everyone his head full of scars. Just as Ibiki finished putting his bandanna back on, someone came crashing through the window. Anko appeared in the front of the classroom in front of a sign.

"I am Anko Mitarashi your second proctor for the chunnin exams!" The violet haired women shouted. Ibiki sighed, she was early again.

"Your early again, Anko." Ibiki told the women.

"Ibiki why are there so many left? Are you getting soft?" Anko asked the lead interrogator of the leaf village as she looked around the room. She ignored his earlier statement about being early.

"Or, these batches of genin are just really strong this year." Ibiki answered.

"Well you do have the twelve Konoha genin that fought off Kakashi, Gai, Asuma and Kurenai." Anko replied as she spotted Team 7, 8, 9, and 10.

"I heard about that" Ibiki confirmed. "This year will definitely be quite interesting."

"It will be no problem cutting this batch less than half. Talk to your jounin sensei to find the next location, I will see you all bright in early tomorrow morning." Anko explained before vanishing in a swirl of leaves.

(Next morning, training ground 44)

The Konoha 12 had all met up early that morning to head towards the forest of death together. They were finalizing a few plans on their way there.

They all dropped down from the trees just before the gates of the Forest of Death. Most of the genin from the day before were already there, even Anko. She was sitting on top of the gate eating a Dango.

It wasn't long after until Anko started to explain the rules for the second part of the Chunnin exams. Once she was done Naruto turned to the others.

"We meet at the hollow tree, each of you have a map of the forest. I mapped it out a few days ago. Hokage-Jii let it slip that we were coming here for the second part. On the fourth day, head to the tower if we are not all there. Don't forget to pick up as many scrolls along the way. It will be easier for us if we have extra; it's also less competition for later." Naruto explained.

They all nodded in understanding, they had worked most of this plan earlier. "Why wouldn't someone be there by the fourth day?" Hinata asked.

"It is in case of our teams are attacked by a strong team. It would hold everyone back if nine of us were waiting for one team. At least some of us have to make it to the last round." Sasuke replied.

"That makes sense." Tenten commented.

"Yosh! Our flames of youth burn ever so brightly!" Lee shouted in excitement.

"All of you need to be at your gates, quit standing around!" Anko shouted at everyone.

"Good luck, see you soon" Sakura said.

"You too." Many voices replied in unison.

All of the teams were now standing at each gate waiting to be let into the forest of death.

Anko's voice suddenly shouted through speakers that were set up around the outside of the Forest of Death.

"Alright Maggots get in there already!" The gates opened all around the forest letting all the genin inside.

As soon as the gates were open and Team 7 walked in Naruto spammed hundreds of clones.

"Let's do this!" Naruto told his teammates as they dashed further into the forest of death.

It was a day later and Team's 8, 9, and 10 were already at the hollow in the tree. Each team had gotten one extra scroll along the way.

"I wonder how long it will take Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura to get here." Choji asked munching on some chips.

"I thought they would be one of the first ones here actually. Naruto seemed really serious about getting here as fast as we could." Kiba replied.

"That is because he was" Neji stated.

"Oh, so what was with that Kabuto guy?" Kiba asked.

"He was bad news, couldn't you tell? He was very troublesome. There is no way someone could have that much information on people, even if he took the exam 7 times." Shikamaru explained.

"So he is a spy." Ino said.

"We believe so; I hope Team 7 gets here soon." Shino answered.

"You probably won't be seeing them that soon." An unfamiliar voice called out to them.

Team 7 raced through the trees, they had collected quite a few scrolls with Naruto's clones. Naruto was also keeping an eye on other teams with his clones. There was no sign of Orochimaru yet. That was definitely worrying the three genin.

"The others are probably waiting for us." Sakura suddenly said as they jumped from tree to tree.

"They are I had a clone pass by them earlier this morning. I thought Orochimaru was going to find us by now. I didn't want to in danger them; I wanted us to deal with Orochimaru." Naruto explained.

"I don't think Shikamaru, Shino and Neji are going to be too happy about that." Sasuke commented.

"I know….hey someone is coming in this direction." Naruto told them.

A few minutes later the Sound Team came through the trees.

"What are they doing here? It's too early for them to be attacking us?" all three members of Team 7 thought.

Sorry again for updating so late. Well it seemed like a long time to me. lol. I hope all of you liked it. :)

****Spoiler if you are not up to date with the Manga*****

RIP: Shikaku, Inochi and Neji. I can't believe Neji had to be the first of the Konoha 12 to be killed. It was sad. I mean its a war so there have to be some people that die. They can't all be random ninja we don't know.

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