Chapter 14

A year has past since Gaara's departure from Konoha. Gaara and Kiroko have been training hours and hours through the days. At first everyone thought Gaara was going too hard on Kiroko, because by each day their training got more dangerous and more complex. But Kiroko took on the challenge and became Gaara's favorite person to be around in the Sand Village.

"Keep it up Kiroko!" Gaara shouted as Kiroko shot sand balls with hidden shuriken at her sensei. "Don't say I didn't warn you sensei!" Kiroko shouted as she did a jutsu that brought the sand under her feet and turned them into spikes and threw them at Gaara.

Gaara dodged every spike without a scratch. "All right Kiroko, go practice your shuriken shooting." Gaara said as he wiped his face with his forearm.

"Sure thing sensei" Kiroko said as she bowed and then ran off to go train some more.

"Gaara I have some news to inform you." Gaara's old sensei, Baki, exclaimed.

"Yes?" Gaara responded.

"They are preparing for the Chuunin exams at the Leaf Village. I thought you would like to bring Kiroko." Baki said.

"That wouldn't be such a bad idea. She's been training for a year now, and I think she is capable of handling the Chuunin exams." Gaara said watching Kiroko train from afar.

"I'll report Kiroko's attendance to the Chuunin exams right away." Baki said before he left to inform the Hokage.

"Kiroko!" Gaara yelled out. Kiroko paused and turned to Gaara, "Yes Gaara-sensei?" Kiroko shouted back. "Come here" Gaara said. In a couple of seconds Kiroko zoomed to Gaara's side and waited for him to speak. "Yes sensei?" she spoke.

"I am going to enter you in the Chuunin exams." Gaara stated.

"Really?! That's awesome!" Kiroko said jumping up and down. Even though Kiroko grew she was still her old hyper self.

"I have something for you, Kiroko. Come with me." Gaara said walking into the village. "Right behind ya!" Kiroko said walking closely behind Gaara.

Gaara entered his office, from where he ruled as Kazekage. He opened a drawer and pulled out a headband. But not an ordinary headband, a Sand Village headband! "This is for you" He said handing Kiroko the headband. Kiroko was full of glee. She didn't know what to do first. So she pulled off her Star Village headband from her head, carefully grabbed the Sand Village headband, tied it around her neck, and then squealed with joy right before jumping on Gaara and giving him a breath taking hug.

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"Kakashi-sensei, do you know who is going to enter the Chuunin exams this year?" Naruto asked excitingly.

"Well I was thinking of entering you and Tenna, since you are the only two in my team that haven't become Chuunin yet." Kakashi answered.

It's been almost a year since Estuko's death. Sasuke decided to train on his own with Kakashi's permission, Sakura was training under Tsunade but still had her days where she would train with her old sensei and teammates, Naruto was still his knuckle-headed self but now he goes everyday before practice to Estuko's burial, and the one and only Tenna, who can now speak whenever she please, was part of Team 7! Kakashi offered her a spot on the team a month after she finished her training with the Perverted Hermit.

"Go find Tenna and tell her the news." Kakashi told Naruto. Naruto did a salute and ran off to find Tenna.

Tenna was in the training grounds alone trying to summon her lemurs when Naruto hung upside from a tree and scared the living daylights out of her.

"NARUTO!" Tenna shouted. Naruto laughed so hard that he lost his grip and fell head first onto the ground.

"Naruto! Oh god, are you okay?" Tenna said as she helped Naruto get up.

"Tenna? When did you get a twin?" Naruto said dazedly as he looked at Tenna. "Snap out of it Naruto. There's only one Tenna in this lifetime." Tenna grinned.

"I came by to tell you that Kakashi-sensei entered us in the Chuunin exams!" Naruto shouted with joy.

"Oh sweet! This is going to be great." Tenna said happily. Then she thought to herself, "I wonder if Gaara will show up."

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"All right is everyone ready?" Kankuro shouted joyfully as he walked out of his house with Kiroko right behind him, followed by Temari. "Where's Gaara?" Kankuro asked.

"He's probably at his office." Temari replied.

"I'll go get him bro." Kiroko said as she ran off to Gaara's office. Living with Gaara and his siblings for a year gave Kiroko the privilege of calling Temari and Kankuro her brother and sister.

"Gaara-sensei? Gaara-sensei, are you hear?" Kiroko shouted as she walked into his office. "Hmm I guess he's not here." Kiroko said aloud to herself.

"I heard you'll be entering the Chuunin exams." A voice came from behind Kiroko. Kiroko swiftly turned around and saw her arch rival, Ashitaka. He was her age and he trained under an experienced jounin sand ninja, but Ashitaka's sensei did not let him enter the exams.

"Yeah, what's it to ya?" Kiroko snapped back.

"Nothing, I just wanted to wish you luck." Ashitaka said casually with an evil smirk on his face. "And…I wanted to give you a good luck present."

"Huh? A present?" Kiroko said.

"Yup, here ya go" Ashitaka said handing Kiroko a scroll. "What's this?" Kiroko asked inquisitively, "It's not a bomb is it?" Kiroko said frantically as she dropped the scroll.

"Watch it goofball!" Ashitaka said as he picked up the scroll. "Just summon your sand so that it plasters over the writing in the scroll and good luck will come over you during the exams. It's an old saying, ya know." Ashitaka said with a smirk.

"I knew that!" Kiroko lied.

"Kiroko, c'mon!" Kankuro yelled from outside the building. "We found Gaara, let's get a move on!"

"Coming!" Kiroko shouted back. "Well I better get going. Thanks Ashitaka!" Kiroko said grabbing the scroll before running downstairs.

Ashitaka chuckled evilly, "That fool has no idea what I've just given her…"

As Kiroko was about to leave the building, she knew Gaara would ask her what that scroll was for and if she told him it would bring good luck to her he would make her throw it away, since Gaara doesn't believe in luck. So she put the scroll in her backpack and ran out the door to join her sensei and the others to the Leaf Village.

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"I'm so excited about these exams, Tenna!" Naruto shouted gleefully. "But I am not so excited about the written part of the exam."

"Don't worry Naruto, if anything you can cheat off of me. I'm pretty good at written stuff. Just don't get caught, got it knuckle-head?" Tenna said as they both walked towards the building where the exam was taking place.

"You're turning more like Sakura everyday." Naruto grinned. Tenna stuck out her tongue playfully.

"Hey look over there!" Naruto exclaimed. "It's Lee, Hinata, and Neji with Hinata's younger sister, Hanabi." Naruto said.

"And look next to them, it's Kakashi and Sakura, they probably came to cheer us on." Tenna added. "And look at that little cutie!" Tenna squealed.

"Who?" Naruto asked as he squinted his eyes to see closer. "You mean Konohamaru?"

"Ain't he adorable?" Tenna smiled.

"Yeah yeah, whatever, it's cool that the little tike is going to be taking the exams with us." Naruto said. "I hope I don't have to kick his butt too hard if he's against me in the third part of the exams. That is, if he makes it that far."

"Naruto! Don't be mean!" Tenna scolded Naruto. "What!" Naruto said with an innocent look.

"Hey everybody!" Tenna said as she approached everyone.

"Hey guys, the winner of these exams has just arrived!" Naruto yelled.

"Hey boss!" Konohamaru yelled gleefully as he saluted Naruto.

"Don't be so overconfident Naruto…" Kakashi said to the knuckle-headed ninja.

"So is everyone ready to go in?" Neji announced. Everyone nodded with agreement. Neji, Hinata, Hanabi, Lee, Konohamaru, all walked in. "Naruto, Tenna I wanna tell you two something before you take the exam." Kakashi said as he pulled both of them aside.

"Are ya coming in boss?" Konohamaru yelled form the doorway. "I'll be there in a sec Konohamaru." Naruto yelled. Konohamaru nodded and closed the door behind him.

"Like I was saying, I…" Kakashi started but was interrupted again.

"Look over there!" Sakura shouted. Tenna and Naruto turned around and saw Gaara, Kiroko, Kankuro, and Temari all walking straight ahead.

"It's Gaara!" Tenna shouted. Tenna couldn't stand still any longer, so she ran to Gaara.

"Hey sensei, who's that girl running up to us?" Kiroko asked.

"Hmm?" Gaara said as he squinted his eyes to see who Kiroko was talking about. "It's Tenna!" Gaara said aloud.

"Looks like she's coming in full speed" Kankuro said, "Better be ready bro, 'cause I think she's going after you." Kankuro stated.

Once Tenna was close enough she pounced on Gaara and gave him a tight hug. "Gaara, I can't believe you're finally here!" Tenna said ecstatically.

"Tenna…you can talk now?" Gaara said amazed at that miracle. Kiroko's eyes looked like they were going to pop out. "Hey! Get off of him!" She yelled as she did a beginning hand sign for a jutsu. "Don't Kiroko. Leave them be" Kankuro said putting his arm in front of Kiroko.

Gaara slowly placed both arms around Tenna and closed his eyes, "It's nice to see you too."

"So is little Kiroko ready to take the exams?" Tenna said as she let go of Gaara.

"I am not little, hun" Kiroko said crossing her arms and showed some attitude. Tenna analyzed Kiroko from head to toe. Kiroko had longer lavender hair, bright eyes, and a blue shirt that tied around her back with red strings, a matching blue skirt with black short shorts underneath, black ninja shoes, and to finish her outfit was a red clothed Sand Village headband that she tied around her neck.

"Kiroko, be nice" Temari said. Kiroko smiled innocently and then rolled her eyes.

"You sure grew up Kiroko" Naruto said from behind Tenna. "Hey Naruto!" Kiroko said happily, "You grew up too."

Naruto grew taller and his outfit changed. (A/N: He looks like the Naruto from Naruto 2) "All right, let's go in before they start without us." Gaara said.

"Wait, I...uhh…dropped something. Yeah, that's right! I dropped something…back there" Kiroko said in one breath, then she ran back. "What ya lose, sport?" Kankuro yelled out but Kiroko ran further and further and couldn't hear Kankuro.

Once Kiroko was far enough from the others she took out the scroll, "All right, let my good luck commence." Kiroko said. She spread out the scroll on the ground and clamped her hands together and started to summon the sand. She covered up the whole scroll and in a flash the scroll was glowing. "Umm what's going on?!" Kiroko said aloud as she was being sucked into the scroll. "Wait! No! The exams! Gaara-sensei!" Kiroko shouted but it was too late she was sucked into the scroll. She let out a loud shriek before she was fully sucked in.

"That sounded like Kiroko!" Gaara said. He ran as fast as he could with the others close behind him. "Kiroko!" Gaara shouted once he reached where he heard the yell.

"Hey, what's that?" Tenna asked pointing at the scroll which was spread out. Gaara approached the scroll and bent down. Once he touched the scroll, the scroll glowed once again and began to suck in Gaara. "Gaara!" Tenna shouted as she grabbed onto Gaara's legs as he was getting sucked in. "Tenna!" Naruto shouted and grabbed onto Tenna, then Sakura grabbed onto Naruto, and Kakashi grabbed onto Sakura but none of them were able to with stand that powerful gust that was sucking them in. Kankuro and Temari were about to grab on but the scroll shut tight before they could. Kankuro tried to open it up again but it wouldn't budge.

"Uhh Temari, we have a problem." Kankuro said.

Everyone yelled as they fell in a dark pit. Then in a couple of seconds they landed in the Leaf Village….but something was totally wrong.

"Is everyone all right?" Naruto said as he rubbed his throbbing head. "Yeah, I am" Tenna responded.

"Where's Kiroko?" Gaara said getting up from the ground and scanning his surroundings. "Gaara-sensei!" A familiar voice cried out. Kiroko jumped on Gaara and hung on tightly. "Gaara-sensei, I was so scared. I thought I was going to be lost by myself." Kiroko said petrified.

Gaara grabbed Kiroko by her shoulder's roughly. "Did you have anything to do with that scroll that we all got sucked into?" Gaara said sternly.

"Maybe…" Kiroko said naively.

"Kiroko! Where the hell did you find that scroll!?" Gaara yelled.

"I got it from Ashitaka, back at the Sand Village. He gave it to me before I left. He told me to use it and it will grant me good luck during the exams." Kiroko said scared stiff from Gaara's reaction.

"How stupid can you be!? Grabbing a random scroll from someone who you've been competing against back at home!" Gaara shouted furiously.

"I'm sorry…" Kiroko's voice cracked.

"The scroll you just used was a time travel scroll. We traveled back in time and who knows how we're getting the hell back!" Gaara shouted again.

"Don't be so mean Gaara, she didn't know any better." Naruto butted in. "Stay out of this Naruto. She brought us here, and she's my reasonability, so it's my reasonability to get us back to our own time." Gaara said crossly.

"Hey, where's Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked breaking up the tension, "I remember he grabbed onto me, but now he's vanished."

"I'm right here Sakura." A young voice came from behind everyone. Everyone turned around, except for the heated Gaara, and everyone's mouths hung wide open. "Kakashi-sensei, is that really you?" Tenna said as she pinched her arm to make sure she wasn't seeing things.

"Yup"

"Who's that hottie!" Kiroko said a huge grin spread across her face.

What everyone was staring at was a 13 year old Kakashi. He was, of course, shorter and wore a grey outfit, not his jounin outfit he had on before. "What happened to you Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked to the young Kakashi.

"It seems we traveled back in time 13 years ago. I'm in my 13 year old body now." Kakashi informed everyone.

"Why haven't we become younger too?" Naruto asked.

"You idiot, we probably weren't born yet." Sakura said bonking Naurto on the head.

"Well I know I wasn't born yet, but you guys should be around the age of 2 or 3." Kiroko said.

Tenna looked all around her. Everything looked peaceful and calm. "This feels nice, ya know…" Tenna said taking a deep breath in.

"Hello out there!" a voice called out. Everyone turned around and saw the young looking third Hokage.