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New Warning: Language
AN: So once again only chapter since its longer than usual. Also I fell behind in trying to prewrite chapters for tomorrow because my sister, who I haven't seen in month months, came to town for my birthday, so no update tomorrow. I'm sorry.
Kakashi had informed them a month ago that the Chunin Exams were coming up. Now Naruto was walking down the road with Konohamaru and his friends. Due to the fact she'd been periodically visiting Hiruzen since she was 8, Konohamaru and her were like siblings. Udon and Moegi were walking on either side of her while Konohamaru was running ahead. She sped up however when she heard Konohamaru shout. Coming around the corner she saw Konohamaru being held off the ground by a boy her age from Suna. He was yelling at Konohamaru to watch were he was going, while the other Suna nin, a blonde female, was asking him to not start anything.
She could sense Sasuke and someone else in the nearby tree, so she glanced at Sasuke and signaled about the other in the tree with him, to which he just nodded, showing he already knew. After that she turned back to the nin holding Konohamaru, who now looked a few seconds away from hitting Konohamaru, and called, "I would suggest you put him down. He's the Honorable Grandson of the Sandaime." She didn't like calling Konohamaru 'Honorable Grandson', but it would serve it's purpose in this situation.
She was proven right about it's affectiveness, when the two Suna nin blanched, then the male quickly put Konohamaru down, and began apologizing to Konohamaru. At that point the person who'd been in the tree with Sasuke made themselves known, by performing a sand Shunshin to right beside the boy who'd been holding Konohamaru and glared at him.
Deciding to drive the point that they were guests in Konoha a little deeper, she called out, "I'm assuming you're here for the Chunin Exams, but I'd like to see your papers."
Even though she was only a Genin, any Shinobi of any rank was permitted to demand seeing foreign Nins travel papers, and complying was a requirement. Most didn't, as if they did the nin in question would then be needing to stop every couple feet, however like she was doing now, some would ask to make a point clear. The blonde obviously knew what Naruto was doing, and she looked embarrassed by the males actions, but she brought out her papers. Taking them Naruto looked them over quickly, then coming to the conclusion everything was in order, handed them back to Temari, as that was the name on the papers. Then she turned to the male, raised an eyebrow, and extended an expectant hand. He blushed and quickly dug his papers out. When she got his papers unlike the female's she made a point of going over them slowly. She was making the point to him and not the girl after all. Finally after almost three minutes she declared everything in order and handed Kankuro his papers as well.
At that point the boy who'd been hiding in the tree turned as though to walk away, she stopped him with a simple, "I do believe I asked to see your papers." She knew why he thought he was excused from showing his papers, the Kyuubi had warned her that he was the Jinchuriki of Shukaku as soon as she sensed him, she'd met the Kyuubi when she was nine, and they were on relatively good terms after he'd told her of the rouge Uchiha who'd been controlling him. Still, being a Jinchuriki didn't exclude him from the rules, so she told him as much, "Just because you're Shukaku's Jinchuriki, doesn't mean the rules don't apply to you. So papers, now."
Temari and Kankuro were gaping at her in shock, though wether it was because she knew he was a Jinchuriki or because she'd still demand he'd do something even after knowing what he was, Naruto didn't know. The redhead turned back around and stared at her for a minute, then seeming to decide on something the cork to the gourd on his back flew off, and sand started flowing out.
Getting a warning from Kyuubi that the redhead was preparing to attack, she pulled her dagger, the one made from a Velociraptor claw, and moved right in front of him with her dagger to his throat. Seeing the three's shock she assumed they either didn't expect her to recognise him readying his attack, react so quickly, move that fast, or a combination of the three. She merely stared the redhead in the eye and said, "I wouldn't do that. I would also advise you stop trying to bring your sand around, I could kill you before your sand reached me. Now, normally I would report you attempting to attack a Konoha Shinobi, however it's rather obvious you did it because your used to getting everything your way and no one questioning you, so I'll let you off with a warning and this. We don't tolerate that kind of shit in Konoha, and your just a regular nin, you won't get special treatment here." Giving him one final glare she backed off and said, "Now. I won't ask again, papers, now."
Gaara eye the girl in fear. She'd gotten inside his outer sand shield like it was nothing. As long as she had the strength and desire to get through his sand armor, she could have killed him just then. Just like that his existence, the existence he'd tried so hard to prove, would have been extinguished. He'd never feared anyone, but now, now he feared her. So with a shaky hand, he gave her his papers.
Just like with Kankuro she made a point to take her sweet time carefully checking over every little detail on the papers. Afterwards she handed Gaara his papers back, just like Temari and Kankuro she'd learned his name from his papers. With that she gave all three of them a stern look and said, "I'm only going to warn you all this once. Don't start anything. Now go."
Gaara nodded sharply and walked away stiffly. His shaky siblings following. Naruto watched them go with narrowed eyes, she said she wouldn't report it, and she wouldn't, not to the the Hokage anyway, but she would mention it to Kakashi. When they turned a corner she turned back to Sasuke and nodded subtly, the sand trio wouldn't be bothering her again. They saw Gaara as an alpha, and by successfully holding Gaara at dagger point, where she could have killed him if she wanted, she'd proven herself a superior alpha. Well she didn't know the human terms they thought in, so they probably didn't think 'alpha', but it was still true, they knew she was stronger.
However instead of leaving Sasuke hopped down and told her that Kakashi had sent him to find her while he went to get Kiba for a team meeting. Nodding in understanding, she turned to the scared Konohamaru trio, she smiled gently at them and spared a few moments to calm them down and apologize for needing to leave. Then she gave each a hug and left with Sasuke.
After meeting her other packmates at their training grounds, she interrupted Kakashi before he could even start speaking to inform Kakashi what had happened. He frowned at the fact a foreign nin had tried to attack a Konoha nin, and that another had mildly assaulted Konohamaru, but agreed with how she handled it. He did inform her however, that while she said she wouldn't report it, he would inform the Sandaime, though with the way she had handled it, he knew the Hokage wouldn't do anything except keep an eye on them to make sure there were no further incidents.
After that he officially informed them of the fact he'd nominated them for the Chunin Exams. Officially because they'd known for a month that he was going to. After informing them he handed them their registration forms, told them they needed to be at academy room 305 by 7 a.m. if they were going to participate, and left.
Baki was worried. His team had come back an hour ago. When they had Temari and Kankuro had looked terrified, and Gaara had this grave silence to him, this was actually normal. What wasn't normal was that Temari and Kankuro's fear didn't seem to stem from Gaara as it usually did, and Gaara's silence wasn't his usual silence, there was something strange about it today. Baki didn't know what it was but there was something even more terrifying then usual about Gaara. Eventually after five more minutes he couldn't take not knowing anymore. So he asked Temari what happened, as she was usually the more level headed one.
Temari stared at him a minute before saying, "We met a Konoha Genin today. Kankuro was starting shit as usual when she came along. After making Kankuro stop before he stupidly hit the Hokage's grandson, Gaara appeared and glared at Kankuro. Then she demanded to see our travel papers, the way she looked over Kankuro's, it was obvious she was making a point about us being guests in Konoha. When Gaara started to leave though, she stopped him and demanded to see his papers as well, despite the fact she somehow knew he was a Jinchuriki. After turning back to her, Gaara obviously decided to kill her for daring to make demands of him, as the cork on his gourd flew off."
Baki interrupted here thinking the girl dead, and not wanting to hear how she died, if Temari and Kankuro were this freaked about an occurrence they were semi used to, Gaara had obviously come up with a new way to kill people, so he said, "So? You see Gaara kill people all the time. Get over it."
To his confusion though, she shook her head before saying, "That's just it Baki-Sensei, she's not dead."
Baki gaped at her unable to believe his ears, "Wait, are you saying-?! Are your saying Gaara was merciful?! That he changed his mind about killing someone?!"
Kankuro answered before Temari had a chance to, muttering "More like she forced him to change his mind."
The only thing running through Baki's head was, 'How could anyone force Gaara to do anything?', so he turned to his female student and demanded, "Explain. I just don't believe Gaara would change his mind about killing someone."
Once again she shook her head, then she began speaking as though her mind was elsewhere, "It's worse than that Baki-Sensei. The Genin recognised the sand as the threat it was and pulled this strange claw looking knife. She moved so fast Gaara's sand couldn't keep up. One second she was 10 feet from us, the next she." She paused and stared at her hands as though she couldn't believe what she was about to say, then she said something that would terrify Baki for the next month, "She was right in front of Gaara, inside his automatic defence, and she had him at knife point, Baki-Sensei. That girl could have killed Gaara right then and there, she even knew when Gaara began to recover and bring his sand back in, but she let him go, she spared Gaara. More importantly she scared Gaara into submission, the next time she asked for his papers, I don't think Gaara felt he could hand them over fast enough."
Baki stared at the two in silence for five minutes at least. He couldn't even think at first, but after two minutes his mind seemed to finally kick in, 'Someone... Scared Gaara?! Had him at knife point, and could've taken his life if they wanted to?! And this girls a Genin?! She's probably in the exams to boot. Oh dear Kami. What kind of monster could best Gaara? And without even trying?'
Baki almost wished he hadn't asked.
Naruto met Kiba and Sasuke at the gates of the academy. Together they walked in. Upon arriving at the second floor, the three stared in disbelief at the Genin who couldn't even detect a simple Genjutsu. Hell! They didn't even need to detect the Genjutsu, they just needed to use their heads and realize they'd only walked up two flights of steps instead of three. Though the team that was causing a scene was probably just acting to help the Chunin pretending to guard the door to room '305', they had a Hyuuga, there was no way they didn't know, which meant they were helping the Chunin weed out the weaker Chunin hopefuls. Making their way past the crowd to the next staircase they went up to the real 305 where Kakashi was waiting outside, after informing them he was glad they all showed since you had to have a full team to participate, he bid them good luck, and left.
Entering the room Sasuke was quickly assaulted by Ino and Sakura, so he shot her a desperate pleading look. Sasuke's fan girls were terrified of her, her senses were enhanced by having the Kyuubi sealed in her from such a young age, as such their high pitched noises hurt her ears. Something she'd never tolerated. So when she leveled KI at them in warning they fled to the other side of the room as though all nine of the Biju were after them.
A few minutes later the Genin, minus Sakura and Ino, were conversing after they'd greeted each other, when a silver haired Genin walked up to them and said, "You guys might wanna lower your voices, your drawing attention from the other Genin."
Glancing around the room and seeing the other Genin glaring, Naruto answered before anyone else could in the form of addressing the glaring Genin, "Oh knock it off. First of all none of you are scary. Second if you can't handle a bunch of people talking you shouldn't be Shinobi at all, much less trying to become Chunin. Also not only are we just talking, but we aren't running our mouths about any of you being weak or anything. Sure Kiba expressed confidence, but he didn't insult any of you. I'm confident you could hear our conversation since we weren't trying to be secretive, and if you guys are bothered by Genin greating each other and catching up, you should probably drop out now. Third don't even try to start shit, Konoha doesn't allow examinees to fight outside of the exam portions we fight in."
A voice abruptly cut in, "Exactly you scum. So unless you want to be disqualified before the first exam officially begins, I suggest you take a took at the bulletin board and moved to your assigned seats."
After getting in their seats, and having the test explained to them, Naruto quickly figured out they were supposed to cheat. Instead of trying to get answers herself, she caught her packmates eyes and signaled them for help. They could get the answers easier than her, what with Akamaru and the Sharingan. One was meant to rely on their packmates so she would, rather than risk getting them disqualified.
At the tenth question she and her packmates watched as Genin after Genin quit, not willing to risk not being allowed to become a Chunin. Eventually though, after it being about two minutes since the last Genin quit, it became clear that the rest of the teams would stick around till the end. So Ibiki said they passed, explaining the tenth question was a metaphor about taking potentially dangerous missions. At that point a black ball burst through the window, before unfurling to reveal a woman who introduced herself as Anko and the procter of the second portion of the exam.
After telling them to follow her she led them to a heavily fenced off training grounds, she began explaining about the second exam. However once she reached the part about death waivers Sakura yelled in shock. In retaliation, Anko threw a kunai at her, cutting her cheek, then she appeared behind her and licked the blood from the cut. Then she held a kunai to another Genin's tongue when he stood behind her and extended his tongue to extreme lengths, his tongue looped around her kunai and held to above her shoulder, "You shouldn't sneak up on me," she warned, "Your likely to get hurt."
The other Genin merely chuckled, before replying, "My apologies. I wasn't thinking things through clearly, as the sight of blood excited me. I was merely returning your kunai."
She stared at him a minute, before putting her kunai away and grabbing the one he'd extended, putting that away as well, before saying, "Why thank you. How kind of you."
After that whole fiasco they got back to explaining the test. Apparently they would be given a scroll in return for their forms, that basically just says that if they die after this point, Konoha wasn't held responsible for it.
There were two scrolls, heaven and earth. They needed both to precede to the third portion of the exam. Half the examinees would be getting the heaven scroll, and the other half would get the earth scroll. They would have five days to find a team with the scroll they needed, get the scroll, and get to the tower in the center of the forest.
After signing the papers and turning them in, they received a heaven scroll. Walking to their assigned gate, they began to talk about basic strategy, eventually deciding Naruto would hold the scroll. They would proceed through the forest with Kiba taking point, as his nose was stronger than Naruto's, whose was stronger than Sasuke's, Sasuke would be in the middle scanning with his Sharingan, and Naruto would be bringing up the rear, as she had the sharpest hearing to hear people coming up behind them.
Waiting for Anko to signal the start of the exam, through the speakers above each gate, they readied themselves to leave as soon as it was time.
Hearing Anko yell a countdown from five, they tensed. At the go they shot into the forest at high speeds, the second exam had now begun.