The First Test Begins
The trio of Jinchuriki woke up and got ready for their upcoming test. They made sure they had enough kunai and shuriken for anything that may come their way during the exam. They all knew the rules they must follow for the exams, no working together and no Biju chakra. However, they agreed that if they came across each other, they would not fight as the rules only said they could not work together, it never said anything having to fight each other. Once they were already, they made their way to Konoha's ninja academy as the first exam would be taking place there.
When they arrived, they saw team 7 fighting a guy about their age maybe a little bit older. He wore a green jumpsuit with a red belt that held his Konoha forehead protector. The guy had bandages on his forearms and orange leg warmers. His most prominent features though were his large, round eyes with bushy eye brows. He was about to put Sasuke into some sort of hold high above the ground, but was stopped by a tortoise. Everyone looked at the tortoise as the other guy bowed to the tortoise as the tortoise scolded him for attempting that technique. Eventual, a plum of smoke appeared on the tortoise's back. When the smoke cleared, everyone's eyes widen as there was now two of them; however, the new one had a jonin vest on. "Lee! I am very disappointed in you. I told you to only use that as a last resort."
"I'm sorry sensei it…" the one known as Lee tried to say but was punched by his sensei.
"I thought I taught you better. It looks like I have to train you harder." said Lee's sensei.
"Yes Gai-Sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-Sensei!"
The two continued to shout their names back in forth before they hugged with a genjutsu of a sunset on a beach behind them being put on everyone nearby. Some tried to claw their eyes out while Sai stared wondering why everyone was trying to harm themselves. Gaara, however, used his ultimate defense to shield himself, but began to scream from inside his sand bubble. "How can I still them!"
Eventually, Gai and Lee stopped their hug breaking the genjutsu. Gai then turned his attention to team 7. "So, this is Kakashi's team." he said.
"You know Kakashi-sensei?" asked Sakura.
"I should be considering we are eternal rivals. Know how about you three?" he said to the pillar the Jinchuriki were hiding behind. Everyone turned towards the pillar as they watched the Jinchuriki come out from behind it.
"Hey, I'm Fuu and these are my teammates, Gaara and Naruto." said Fuu as she came from around the corner.
"Ahh, so you are the Jinchuriki participating this year."
"Yeah, and you are?"
"I am Might Gai, Konoha's Green Beast!" shouted Gai as he stood straight up with his arm extended with a thumbs up, as well as a big toothy grin, that was dubbed the "Nice-Guy" pose. Causing everyone to face fault except for Lee, who had stars in his eye.
"Okay. Umm… guys… why don't we go up to the testing room?" asked Fuu getting nods from the others. "How about you guys?" Fuu asked towards team 7 getting nods from them also.
The two teams left Gai and Lee in the hall as they walked to the room the first test was in. They found the room on the third floor and when they entered, they saw other teams from Konoha, the sand siblings and their teammate from before, and a few teams from the smaller villages surrounding the Land of Fire. Everyone turned their heads to the new comers. Most thought they didn't look like much, but a few saw the head bands on Naruto and his team and began to wonder if they were allowed to enter. Soon, they heard a girl from behind them shouting. "Sasuke-kun! Oh, how you must have missed me!" shouted a girl with platinum blonde hair and a purple outfit as she latched onto Sasuke from behind. Shortly her teammates walked in. One was a very large guy who seemed to have an endless supply of potato chips and the other had black hair tied up, making his head look like a pineapple.
Sasuke seemed to get annoyed by this, but didn't say anything about it. The girl that then latched onto him then seemed to have a confused look. "Sakura aren't you going to say something about me and Sasuke-kun?"
"No, I moved on to someone else Ino." Sakura said, but covered her mouth as soon as she realized what she said. Naruto blushed wondering if she was talking about him.
"Oh. Who is it? Where and how did you meet?" Ino began to rattle off question after question trying to get as much information from Sakura as possible as she declared herself "Konoha's Gossip Queen", but Sakura stayed tight lip during the questioning.
While Ino was questioning Sakura, another genin team from Konoha walked in. One of them had a grey sweater with a dog sitting on his head. The other male member of the team had a gray overcoat that covered the lower half of his face and black sunglasses. The final member, and the only female on the team had bluish-purplish hair and lavender, pupil-less eyes. "Dammit Ino! Why do you have to be so loud?"
"I'm loud dog-breath because Sakura is no longer interested in Sasuke." Ino responded. This caused the new team's jaw to drop as they have always known Sakura as Sasuke's number one fan in the academy.
Before the one with the dog on his head could respond, a kid with silver hair and glasses came over and spoke.
"Hey, you should quite down. Some of these teams don't wish to be upstaged by some rookies fresh out of the academy." said the stranger.
"Really, what about you? How many times have you participated?" asked Sakura.
"This would be my seventh try, and the name is Kabuto by the way." stated Kabuto.
"Wow, you must not be a good ninja then." said Kiba.
"No, you could say that, but I'm excellent at gathering information on others." as he was saying this he pulled out some cards. "Give me a name of a person or a description of someone and I can give you any information on that person using these cards."
"Naruto Uzumaki, Neji Hyuuga, and Rock Lee." asked Sasuke.
"Ahh, and here I thought you trusted me Sasuke." said Naruto.
"Naruto Uzumaki. Age: 13. Rank: Genin. Excellent in Taijutsu and Ninjutsu, but has shown no skill in Genjutsu. Limitless chakra reserves as shown by his ability to create countless shadow clones. Jinchuriki to the Nine Tail Fox." Kabuto read of the card for Naruto.
"How many shadow clones can you make Naruto?" asked Sakura as she heard about his limitless chakra.
"Last I counted, 250 shadow clones." said Naruto.
"250?! Most Jonin can only create one or two, and you are a genin!" shouted Ino.
"Yes, but like he said, I'm a Jinchuriki to the strongest of the tailed beast."
As the guy got ready to read the next card. Some ninja from the new Hidden Sound Village attempted to attack Kabuto. Kabuto managed to dodge their attacks, but after one dressed as a mummy missed a punch, Kabuto's glasses broke as he lost his balance. When the sound nin tried to attack again, a large smoke cloud exploded in the front of the room. From the smoke came a loud, booming voice. "What is going on here?"
"Nothing is happening." said one of the sound nin that was dressed like a mummy.
"Very well." said the man before continuing. "My name is Ibiki, but you will only address me as Sir. I will be the proctor of the first exam, which will be the written part. Now if you will all take your seats, we can begin." As everyone was getting situated, Ibiki was giving the rules of the exam. "You will have to answer ten questions within an hour; however, the tenth, and final question, will be given in the last fifteen minutes. If one of your teammates are caught cheating, then everyone on that team is disqualified. The men you see on the sides of the room will make sure you aren't cheating. Begin."
With that everyone flipped their papers over to begin the test, and everyone soon realized that the questions were to hard for any Genin. For some, they were book smart, so they were capable of doing this. Some managed to figure out the meaning of the test, while everyone else was at a lost on how they were supposed to answer the questions. For the Jinchuriki, they were given test harder than this during their training. Even though Naruto saw those tests as a waste of time, he could not deny that they were helping now. Him and the other Jinchuriki finished with anywhere between 5 and 10 minutes until the final question. As they waited for the final question, Naruto looked around to see how the others were doing.
He saw that team 7 had finished also and was waiting for the final question also. Ino's teammate, Shikamaru, seemed to be using his shadow to control his teammates, and write the answer for them. While Kiba was using his dog, Akamaru, to tell him the answers. His other male teammate was using what looked like bugs to copy answers, and his female teammate seemed to have veins protruding out of the side of her eyes while writing down the answers.
Soon, Ibiki called for everyone's attention for the final question. At this point, Naruto finally saw how many teams had been eliminated; leaving only about half of the starting teams. "Now," stated Ibiki, "there are some extra rules to the final question. If you fail the question, then you fail the test, and you will never be allowed to take the chunin exams again." When he said that there was an uproar amongst the contestants. One shouted how there are some that have taken the exam multiple times. Ibiki responded to the outburst saying, "I was not their proctor, and this is my test, thus my rules. Now you can quit the test now and be able to take the exam the next time, but your whole team forfeits if one of you forfeits as well. Now, any volunteers?"
After saying this the room grew quiet, but soon hands started going up, with teams leaving shortly after.
After a while, when no more hands went up, Ibiki began to speak. "No one else want to leave?" Getting no response, he continued, "Very well, then you all pass." This caused most people to become confused. Ibiki tried to explain the final test, but was interrupted when something flew through the window. Soon, a banner saying "Introducing the Proctor of the Chunin Exam: Anko Mitarashi" with a woman standing in front. "Ok chumps I am the proctor of the second test."
Ibiki stepped out from behind the banner and spoke. "You're early, again." said Ibiki causing Anko to blush in embarrassment.
"Well you let all of these teams passed either your test was too easy or you are getting soft."
"Or this could be a good crop this year."
"Well by the end of the second exam, I'll have more than half of the teams eliminated." Anko said. "Ok everyone, meet me at training ground 44 in one hour. If you are late, your entire team is disqualified." With that Anko jumped back through the window. The remaining teams then left for training ground 44 as the second exam would soon begin.
Here is the next chapter. Sorry it is late. It took longer to write than expected and I wanted to make it as good as possible.
Also, if anyone knows what Anko's banner actually said could you please leave a comment saying what it actually said. Thank you.
Phantom out.
