The Silent in Disguise Beautiful Girl from the Dead

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Chapter 10: Chunin Exams PART 1...Sakura's POV

Naruto, Sasuke, and I were waiting patiently for our sensei to arrive for training but alas her was no where to be found, not even after 3 hours of waiting for him to just poof in. I mean usually he was just 2 hours late and that was predictable but 3…that was not expected and it was definitely putting Naruto into a sour mood. But I just waited patiently as I meditated on the bridge edge. But I guess I got a little too deep in meditation because when Kakashi-sensei appeared next to me in a puff of smoke I was caught off guard. I nearly stumbled back and off the bridge when I felt someone grip one of my hands and pull me back to safety.

"You okay Sakura-chan? I wouldn't want you to fall off the bridge especially with the news I have for you all," Kakashi-sensei said in a happy voice. I just righted myself up with his help and then stood next to Naruto who looked now interested in what Kakashi-sensei had to say. "I have nominated all of you to participate in this year's chunin exams. Of course it is independent so if you don't feel up to it, you don't have to participate in the exams. Hey why do you guys look a little pale?"

Really Kakashi-sensei was right we all looked pale but that was because of what happened a few days ago.

Flash back

Naruto and I were walking down the street when we ran into Konohamaru and his little academy friends. Naruto quickly became frustrated when they wouldn't stop following us and started to chase the poor grandson of the Sandaime Hokage. I was left to the presence of the 2 other kids and then rushed after the 2 at a much more sedate pace than normal with Konohamaru's friends to check on them.

When I got there a guy dressed in a cat-suit with ears, purple face paint, a hitai of Sunagakure, and what looked to be a mummy on his back was holding Konohamaru by his incredibly long scarf to his cat-like face. There was a girl with him, she was taller than myself and looked to be a little older than the boy. She had dark green eyes and blond hair, which was gathered into four ponytails. Her outfit consisted of a single light purple-colored, off-the-shoulders garment that extended to halfway down her thighs, with a scarlet sash tied around her waist. In addition to incorporating fishnet worn over her shoulders and legs, specifically on her right calf and her left thigh, she also wore her hitai around her neck. She also carried a large fan on her back.

From what I could tell the girl was trying to make the boy let go of Konohamaru but because he bumped into hi he was going t beat Konohamaru up. I quickly intervened once Naruto was pushed down on the ground. I calmly walked up to the boy holding Konohamaru and grabbed his wrist. I then pressed a pressure point in his wrist that made him unfurl his hand and in turn releasing Konohamaru.

I then stepped back and bowed to the 2 Suna ninja. I got out a piece of paper and wrote, 'Excuse me for interrupting, I am Haruno, and that is the grandson of the Sandaime Hokage you were threatening. And although Konoha and Suna have always had peace together I will not hesitate to attack you if you harm my fried again. Now, what are you Suna ninja doing here in Konoha?' I then showed them the paper and the boy started to laugh. The girl promptly slapped him on the back of the head and smiled lightly at me.

"We are here for the chunin exams being held here soon," she said in a strong voice. "My name is Temari and this is my younger brother Kankuro, I am sorry for the trouble we have caused." She then bowed and I bowed back to her. But suddenly the boy broke out of his sister's hold and stalked his way towards me. He looked angry and was not about to back down. Once he stood in front of me he lifted me up by me neck much like he did Konohamaru.

"What's wrong little boy, to afraid to speak since your voice will quiver in fright to speak?" He said and laughed a harsh laugh that sounded like a menacing chuckle to me. This boy had killing intent, even at such a young age; he probably had gone on many high-up missions. And if that was true why was he taking the chunin exams?

I was about to lift my hand to write something but then I felt Sasuke's presence in the tree next to us. I just stayed motionless as a small pebble flew towards Kankuro's hand with enough force to make him let go. I landed without a sound on the ground as I watched as Kankuro cradled his hand. I looked towards Sasuke and saw him smirking in the tree at the boy, then turned his head and nodded at me. He then looked over Naruto and then back to Kankuro; out of the corner of my eye I saw the girl named Temari looking at him appreciatively. I nearly burst out laughing at the thought of even the girls in Suna falling for my teammate.

"Sorry for the hand, but you were threatening my teammates and I can't allow that. You see Naruto would definitely lose to you being the Dobe that he is. But Haruno would wipe the floor with you in 3 seconds flat seeing as how he is the strongest of our team. But you see you were wrong to think he was scared, he isn't scared of anything. He's just mute so he had to write what he wants to say. Now before I think of reporting you to the Hokage for threatening his grandson why don't you all leave Konohamaru and my teammates alone." Sasuke said in a serious voice while standing up in the tree he was sitting in glaring at Kankuro.

The Girl and Guy just looked at me and I looked back and then took a menacing step towards them and they promptly stepped back a few paces. I then just stood there as Sasuke jumped down from the tree and took his place beside me and Naruto on my left. I then heard a deadly calm voice speak from the same tree Sasuke was in, "Kankuro, we did not come here for some little kids. We are here for the exams not stop with your pointless street fight. We must meet Baki-sensei at the hotel." I looked up to see a red headed boy standing up in the tree. He had blood-red hair, sea-foam green eyes, black rings that told me he was an insomniac around his eyes, and the kanji for 'love' on his forehead in blood-red. He wore black full body suit with t-shirt-like sleeves, ¾-length legs, and an open neck. With this, he wore a white cloth over his right shoulder and the left side of his hips, and a wide leather band system over the left shoulder and right side of his hips. With this leather band, he carried around a gourd on his back. He also wrapped had his hitai wrapped around one of these bands.

I was surprised at how quietly he came, but thankfully nobody had noticed due to my mask. I looked at the boy and he looked at me then disappeared in a swirl of sand that encased his body. He then reappeared in between the other 2 Suna ninja as they just gaped in shock and what I thought was fear at the sight of the boy that looked to be around our age. He then turned around and what I so desperately wanted to ask Sasuke did for me, "What is your name? Mines Sasuke Uchiha and these are my teammates."

The boy looked at us for another second then looked at me and glared. I was surprised that he would just single me out like that. I stood my ground and then his face went back to the eerie calm look it had before and then said, "Gaara no Sabaku." Then he walked off and with the 2 other ninja following him like little dogs.

End of Flashback

Once we all got out of out stupor I looked at Kakashi-sensei and said, "Aren't the exams dangerous and haven't a few people died before." He looked at me and so did the others and then he just did what I think was a smile due to the little eye-crinkle I received. Before he answered he pulled down my mask and hood, allowing me to leave my sunglasses on. It was a hot day today so I wore a pair of black shorts that normal girls would wear and a green tank-top with a mesh t-shirt like shirt overtop of it. I also had my normal weapons and sandals, but I had my hair up in a high-ponytail.

"Yes, that is true. I'm glad one of you is thinking with a proper head about going into this or not," Kakashi-sensei said. "Here are your registration forms, if you want to enter just sign your name on it and go to room 301 in 3 days to enter the exam by 8 AM. Okay, Bye." And with that he disappeared in a poof of smoke to do…whatever he does when he's nit being late or reading porn.

I looked at my teammates and said, "I'm going to think about this a little bit. What about you guys?" I should have expected the answer I got from Naruto.

"Of course I'm going to enter. This is my chance to becoming 1 step closer of becoming the Hokage! Believe it!" Naruto yelled while doing a fist pump, next to him Sasuke smirked. I just laughed lightly at Naruto's response to a new challenge to test his strength.

"It would be good to see how our fellow genin are developing. Besides I want to meet up with that Suna ninja Gaara. It would be fun to fight against him," Sasuke said in a calm voice but I could sense the underlying excitement underneath his façade.

I just shook my head at them. I really should have expected there answer from how much they like to fight. "You guys do that but I'm going home. It's to hot and I don't feel like training and because I wore girl clothes today I can't go out in public," I said, a little disgruntled at the fact that I couldn't go into town. I just shrugged and started to pull my mask and my cloak on. "See ya."

I was really thinking about joining the Chunin exams, but I didn't know if it was a good idea to get involved in ninja traditions like this. I guess I could see it as a member of one of the Gotei 13 going up a seat. But I had an unfair advantage against everybody seeing as how I trained with the Hokage. But that Sand kid with the red hair gave me a bad feeling and I couldn't just leave my teammates and friends defenseless like that. I guess I had no choice, seeing as how I was the only own with medical experience and was a clear thinker it would be better if I came along to look after those 2 idiots.

Well I guess I had made my mind up; time to get training. I had to hone my sensing skills, I had slipped up with Kakashi and Gaara on the same day, and that would be bad if I let it happen again. Fun!

3 days later...Sakura's POV

I was walking with Naruto and Sasuke to the entrance hallway when we had only walked to stories up we saw a room with the numbers 301 on the door. A bunch of kids were trying to get in there but were blocked by 2 kids standing guard at the door. There was only one explanation seeing as how we had only gone up a flight of stairs, so we were on the second floor not the third. So they had used a Genjutsu.

I looked at Sasuke and nodded, he led the way as we made our way to the door, I on his left and Naruto on his right. When we got to the front near the 2 guards/kids Sasuke said, "Drop the act, we noticed it the second we got here. This isn't the 3rd floor it's the 2nd. Did you notice it Haruno, Naruto? Well then Haruno if you would do the honors." Naruto and I both nodded and then the sign disappeared to reveal a '201' instead of 301.

Then everybody started to murmur about us, finally 3 kids that I recognized came into view heading towards us. It was Neji Hyuga, Rock Lee, and Ten-Ten. Lee immediately ran at me and started to sprout on about beating me, as I was his other rival. I just ignored him, and looked to Sasuke and saw Neji approach him. They quickly got into a stare off but it was broken by Neji when he said, "Who are you?"

"Before you ask your opponents name it is courteous to give your own first," Sasuke said in a calm even voice but it was laced with a challenge underneath. And how could I actually forget the bad blood between the Hyugas and the Uchihas.

"Fine then I am Neji Hyuga, now what is your name?" Neji said, straining to be polite in his voice. It was obvious he knew Sasuke was an Uchiha and so the rivalry to beat each other was ingrained in their blood.

"Sasuke Uchiha," Sasuke said and with that Sasuke started to walk away. I bowed to Neji, Ten-Ten, and Lee then grabbed Naruto, who was back in a little emo corner mumbling about how no one wanted to know his name, and then went to catch up to Sasuke.

We all walked in silence as we got closer to the door and then right as we got there, in a puff of smoke Kakashi-sensei appeared. He looked at us all and smiled and said, "I'm glad you all came. If one of you didn't then the others wouldn't be able to participate in this exam. I was worried that you were over thinking it to far Haruno like you tend to do sometimes. But I had the feeling you would show up so you could take care of your teammates. Also, you have a lovely house. Now get in there."

With that I was hauled off by me teammates who were just as shocked as me. But they were shocked about him not telling him the truth. I wanted to know though when he came over to my house! Ugh, this was going to annoy me now. The doors to the exam were pushed open and we walked inside to find so many genin in the place, it was insane. And then the peace and wonderment ended for me and my teammates. "Sasuke-kun! I've missed you so much, have you missed me Sasuke-kun! Ugh, why are you oh Sasuke-kun's team Haruno, it should have been me, actually I'll be happy to trade with you?" Ino had latched herself onto Sasuke's being and didn't seem to want to let go anytime soon.

Her teammates came up behinds her, Shikamaru looking lazy as ever and Choji eating a bag of chips; Sasuke was now trying to remove Ino, and failing if I say so myself. "H-Ha-Haruno-kun, Na-Nar-Naruto-kun, I'm g-glad t-to s-s-see you t-t-to-today." Hinata-chan said whiles the color of a tomato looking at Naruto the whole time. I smirked under my mask, even though she didn't stutter too much now, whenever Naruto would come back into the picture there she would go again. It was cute but sometimes it got annoying.

I walked up to Hinata and snapped my fingers in front of her eyes, she snapped out of it and blushed a deep red in embarrassment, I then held out my hand and she high-fived it. Kiba and Shino were behind her, Kiba was grinning at me and Shino just nodded his head. I waved to them in response and then felt someone approach from behind us. I turned around and saw a boy with silver hair and glasses a few years older than all of us approach. The others turned around and I was the one he approached. Sasuke and Naruto took my sides and were looking at the boy. "Hello, I'm Kabuto, and you guys are attracting a lot of attention, so you might want to stop," Kabuto said. "I'm guessing this is all of yours first time, well I've taken this a number of times. So I'll give you guys a little help." He then pulled out a stack of cards and put them on the ground as we crowded around. "Tell me who you want to know about, and it will show up on my cards."

I thought about who I wanted to know specifically for this exam and thought about Neji and the Suna ninja with red hair. It seemed like Sasuke was thinking the same think because he said, "Neji Hyuga and Gaara no Sabaku."

Then on the cards side by side the 2 showed up. Neji had great stats to go into this with and he had taken a few C-rank missions but Gaara was another story. He had never taken a D-rank mission and had every thing above that. He had even an S-rank mission on his file. He was definitely someone I needed to lookout for. And as for his stats well they were amazing, better even than Neji's. Then Kabuto went on to explain something that I didn't know about. There was a new village called Otogakure. It was a little south of the Land of Fire, but it didn't look to be that big.

Suddenly I felt someone approach from behind and I moved in time as a sound ninja pinned Kabuto to the wall. Strangely, I didn't really care what was happening to Kabuto; maybe it was because he was being a little too nice to us; his competition. Naruto though went quickly to aid Kabuto, and the Sound ninja went back to their place after a few suave words from Sasuke. I felt someone glaring at me again and I had a feeling I knew who it was. I turned towards where the glare was coming from and saw a red-haired Suna ninja, Gaara. He was glaring at me and some of the sand from his gourd was coming out. I pulled down my hood lower to hide my eyebrows and pulled my sunglasses down the bridge of my nose.

I looked up at him to let him see my eyes, and I just stared back into his sea-foam green pools. We were having a battle of who was superior and I was not going to back away. But this quickly ended when I heard Naruto yell, "HEY ALL OF YOU I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASSES! YEAH, JUST DROP OUT NOW! HAHAHA!" Naruto fell to the ground laughing and I quickly rushed to him as all of the other genins stalked to wards us. But thankfully an all out fight was stopped when someone appeared.

"Listen up! The first part of the exam is about to start, find the seat that matches the number you all got and then sit your asses down," Ibiki-kun yelled at us. As I passed him he smirked at me and nodded and I just waved. I got to my seat and located Naruto in front of me and Sasuke behind me a few rows. "Now listen up, to pass this test is 10 questions the first 9 will be given now, and then the 10th later. Now these are other chunin's who will be proctoring this first exam with me. This is the written portion of the exam so just try to do your best. But of course there are a couple rules, 1) no cheating, 2) anybody caught cheating shall be kicked out of the exam room, 3) If you are kicked out for cheating then your teammates have to go to. Now…Begin. You have and hour to complete the test, during the last 10 minutes I shall hand out the 10th question."

Every body picked up their pencils and began to write. But as I got through the first few I noticed how they were getting more and more difficult. And finally I came to the conclusion that no genin without being a genius could figure out these problems. There was no way Naruto or Sasuke could figure these out. But when I sent my chalkra out in search of Sasuke I felt a difference in his chalkra and then I noticed how it was all focused in his eyes. He was using his sharingan to copy off of somebody. So the purpose of this test isn't to test our intelligence but our ability to gather information without being noticed. Just as I thought

But I highly doubted that Naruto would figure that out. He took things to literally for him to see underneath what the true meaning of this test was. I had to figure out a way to deliver the answers I had to him so that way he would at least have something on his sheet. I grabbed the hilt of My Zanpakto and contacted Hypno (A/n yes I do not own Pokemon either), one of my telepathy using zanpaktos. I used his power to reach Naruto and speak inside of his mind.

'Naruto listen to me, it's Sakura and I'm speaking into your mind, so don't move and just listen, Okay?' I said to Naruto in his mind. I watched him as he stilled then relaxed.

'Sakura-chan, is that you?' Naruto asked.

'Yes, it's me, now I'm going to give you the answers to this test-' I thought, but was cut off by Naruto's own thought wavelength.

"Sakura-chan, what if we get caught? Then we'll get out asses thrown out of here. I'll befi-' Naruto thought but this time I cut him off.

'Naruto the point of this exam is not to answer then correctly. It is to test our information gathering skills, so that we can convey and get information in real life if we have to on a mission,' I thought adding a 'baka' (Idiot) at the end but made sure it stayed in my mind. 'Now I'm going to send a picture straight to your mind of the first page. And don't worry about Sasuke; he is using his Sharingan to cheat off of a kid for the answers.' I then looked at my picture while keeping up the connection between out minds and made the picture of my paper appear in his mind. And just like that I saw his hand start to move as he copied the answers. The picture would thankfully stay in his mind as long as he thought about it. I looked at the clock and it showed there was only 15 minutes left in this part of the exam. Then the last question would come out. I looked back to Naruto and then saw his hand had stopped moving. I flipped over the paper and did the same thing as before until it appeared in his head.

Naruto had finished copying my answers when Ibiki-kun stepped on the stage again and said, "All right I will now bring out the final question. But first of all, this question is extremely difficult, if you choose not to take it you can come back next year for the exam, but if you take it and fail then you can never take this exam again. Now raise your hand if you no longer wish to take it."

Hands started to be raised one by one each with their team being escorted out. I looked to Sasuke and he nodded and then I looked to Naruto and he was begging to raise his hand. Until it was finally all the way up. Right before Ibiki-kun called his number, Naruto slammed his hand down on his desk. He looked Ibiki-kun directly in the eye and said/yelled, "I'm not afraid of this test and neither is anyone else here. Now give us this last question, I'm ready for it!" With that he sat back down at his desk with everybody in the room staring at him.

Ibiki-kun just smirked at this until it turned into a crooked grin then he said, "You all pass." We all just looked at him funny before he went on and explained, "The 1st part of this test as some of you might have know was t test your information gathering skills. The questions on the test were far to hard for any regular genin unless they were a genius, so we spread people throughout the room with the answers. If somebody was caught cheating then they failed to be discreet. But the 2nd part of the test was about courage. Those with the courage to face the unknown only knowing that it will be hard to win. That is what it means to be a ninja. So, you all pass."

Some cheers broke out around the room and then all died when a woman crashed through the window. She had short shoulder length purple hair, light brown, and pupil-less eyes. She is commonly seen wearing a tan overcoat, complete with a fitted mesh body suit that stretches from her neck down to her thighs. She wore a dark orange mini-skirt, as well as a hitai, a small pendant that looks like a snake fang on a thick cord rather than a chain to prevent it from being easily torn off in combat, a wrist watch, and shin guards. She also wears a dark blue belt around her waist that connects to her skirt that has an appendage-like sash. It was obvious who it was, Anko-nee.

She scanned crowds with her eyes and when they landed on me she smiled wildly. The in a loud booming voice she said, "Alright maggots meet me at the Forest of Death training field for your next exam!" We all just looked on in shock. But then Ibiki-kun reminded her that she was actually early and that was tomorrow and we all relaxed. She just looked sheepish and like it never happened added, "Tomorrow at 6 AM!" She then ran back out the window she came through and was gone. Ibiki-kun excused us and then we all left. Well that was an interesting day, well that was to be expected, these are the Chunin Exams.