Sleepless D: It's been bloody hard doing this, I had finished this chapter and started the next one but my memory stick that had all my work broke, so I had to start all over again! If anyone says anything bad about this story...I'm going to kick some ARSE! PEACE OUT!
Update: Wow, forgot about this :P funny shit, hope you're all enjoying it so far. Peace out.
It has been a few weeks since Team 7 came back from the Wave country's main town, know known as the Hidden Wave village. The Hokage was and still is a little sceptical to the knowledge that the Wave country is being controlled by a Missing-Ninja. However, it has been a benefit for the Hidden Leaf village, the Wave country has made stronger bonds to the Fire country. The Wave country has agreed to the terms with the other allied nations, paying a sum of money for the country's support and assistance. The Wave country even agreed to the Shinobi teaching methods and Ninja exams, Team 7 was congratulated on their 'successful' mission.
Within the Hidden Leaf village, Team 7 are waiting for their Sensei to show up, he's now two hours late and Naruto is sleeping against a tree while Hinata stares dreamily at him as he slept. Sasuke is just standing there, not paying attention to anyone, but did give occasional glances at Hinata staring at Naruto. After a few more minutes, Kakashi appears, waving with his strange eye smile. "Sorry I'm late, I crossed a black cat and took the long..." Kakashi began, but realises no one is paying attention to him.
Kakashi walks closer and Sasuke acknowledges Kakashi by looking away from Hinata looks at him, Hinata however is still focused on Naruto. 'Naruto's so cute when he sleeps.' Hinata says to herself while blushing.
Kakashi walks behind her and went down to her level. "Hinata..." Kakashi calls softly, making Hinata brake from her daydream and turns around to see Kakashi behind her, she screams with fright and Naruto shoots up with his fist in the air, ready to kick anyone's arse. "False alarm small guy." Kakashi smiles while standing up straight again.
Naruto looks at the sun; he soon learns the time from its position throughout the years and glares at Kakashi. "You're late...yet earlier than usual."
"Am I?" Kakashi smiles innocently. "Well...I'll have to be more late next time." Kakashi laughesd, making everyone look at him annoyingly. "Now, I've got a D Rank mission, and this mission benefits us because it improves teamwork, which I've noticed has increased and then decreased since the Wave mission." Kakashi notes.
"Why? Mine and Hinata's have improved since then, Sasuke on the other hand..." Naruto shrugs making Sasuke glare at him.
"Well I can work alright with Hinata well enough, you're just a knuckle head that jumps in without planning." Sasuke replies in annoyance.
"And what do you do?" Naruto asks Sasuke in a sarcastic tone.
"I plan ahead before attacking." Sasuke states in annoyance, the two glaring at each other, having enough sparks between the two to light a light bulb
"Yes...but we need all team members to use teamwork, otherwise it could lead to problems later on...worse than it is now...So follow me." Kakashi orders them, walking towards the mission location.
Xxxxx
"That bloody hurt!" Naruto yells, holding his slightly bruised foot as Hinata applies the Hyuga healing ointment to his slightly bleeding toes.
"It's not my problem that you didn't catch it." Sasuke tells him.
"Yes it is your problem! Cause you could see I had my hands full! And I know you did it deliberately!" Naruto yells. "Throwing it and having it hit my head and then making the stuff in my arms fall on my toes!"
"You're just not fast enough." Sasuke tells him and looks at him. "And you should be worrying about your head more, the crate was filled with weights to some guy called Gai, it was hard enough to pass."
"So you did do it on purpose!" Naruto yells, pointing at him. "You do it with the weights! And the past three boxes of pillows weren't heavy enough to distract me!"
Sasuke glares at him. "If you were as strong as me, you would've easily done the job correctly." Sasuke tells him
"I'm stronger then you! You were just slower than me and sent that thing flying at me while I was doing something else!" Naruto yells again, nearly making Hinata drop the jug of ointment in her hands.
"Well a strong ninja would have at least sensed it coming." Sasuke replies.
'Their teamwork needs more then saving...it needs to be put down and replaced.' Kakashi sighs and looks at the sky to see a brown eagle. "Well...we're done for the day, I'll give the mission details and I suggest you all work on teamwork while I'm gone." Kakashi tells them before her puffs into smoke.
"I'm going home." Sasuke murmurs and walks away, leaving Naruto and Hinata there. "Hey Hinata." Naruto calls.
"Y-Yes Naruto-Kun?" Hinata rplies, blushing in response.
"Do you want to work on our teamwork skills?" He asks her with a smile, Hinata blushes even more and quickly nods, Naruto walks with Hinata, taking her hand and making her blush even more.
They walk for a few minutes, walking through shortcuts and soon come across a 'square' rock. Hinata is too busy daydreaming to notice and Naruto just steps on it, causing it to collapse and shocked screams are heard. Hinata becomes confused while Naruto ignores it, soon having three children roll out of the square rock, complaining that Naruto stepped on them. "Watch where you're going Naruto!" The young leader of the group yells in anger.
"Then you shouldn't disguise yourselves as an unrealistic moving rock." Naruto tells him, looking at him now while Hinata giggles, seeing the square rock and knew a blind man could see through that.
"It took me a month to make all that!" The boy yells, kicking the rock disguise in annoyance.
"Hello Naruto." The girl of the group says, bowing with the child with glasses.
Naruto nods his head in reply. "So what do you want Konohamaru?" Naruto asks him, remembering meeting the strange child when he first came to the Hidden Leaf village, not knowing why Konohamaru took a liking to him, but he just lets it be.
"You know what I want!" Konohamaru yells in annoyance, pulling out a very dull kunai. "I'll beat the crap out of-" He began, but Naruto appears next to him and smashes his fist into Konohamaru's skull, making him fall and cry in pain. "W-What did you do that for!?" He yells in pain.
"I told you not to use that language." Naruto tells him, remembering getting a few beatings from the Hokage and Kakashi for saying rude words he learnt from the Orange Book, trying to stop any suspicion for their collection.
"Sorry Naruto…but I will beat you this time!" Konohamaru yells, rushing forward while Naruto easily avoids it while walking towards Hinata.
"I'm a little busy at the moment Konohamaru." Naruto tells him, nodding to Hinata while Konohamaru looks, seeing Hinata.
"..Damn, she's cute, she your girlfriend?" Konohamaru grins.
Naruto looks at Hinata and replies. "Yeah, she's my girl friend." Naruto tells him, making Hinata blush hard and faint. Hinata knew that he didn't know what a girlfriend was, but she couldn't help but faint. "Ah damn it." Naruto complains as he catches Hinata.
"What happened to her boss?" Konohamaru yells, becoming worried by what happened to her.
"She fainted again." Naruto replies.
"Again? You mean this happens all the time?" He asks Naruto, looking at Hinata and mentally compared her to a tomato by her colour.
"Yeah, but I'm not too sure why." Naruto explains.
"Maybe see's ill." Udon says.
"Who knows." Naruto says, gently shaking her.
She slowly wakes up and wonders what happened, seeing that she's in Naruto's arms and she blushes even harder. "W-What happened?" She asks nervously.
"You fainted again." Naruto smiles, making her blush harder before she stands up straight.
"I…I'm sorry." She tells him, but Naruto just chuckles in response.
"Good, she is okay…now defend yourself Naruto!" Konohamaru yells, charging and missing the quick Naruto who sighs in response.
"We can head to the training ground; he should give up about halfway there." Naruto tells her, gaining a small, simple smile from the still blushing Hinata as they walk away. Hinata watches Naruto easily avoid the attacks, either by stepping out of the way, or jumping/rolling away, just to keep it interesting for Konohamaru, so he thinks he's got Naruto on the edge.
"Moegi! Udon! Help a guy out will you!?" Konohamaru yells in annoyance, gaining a nod from the two as they pull out dull kunai and charge.
Naruto smirks, jumping away from them and kept jogging at a slow pace from the children, being much faster than them. Naruto really isn't looking on where he was going, but he knew the place like the back of his hand, thinking on the similar lines to himself before looking at his hand, finding something that wasn't there before and becomes confused. Naruto turns a corner backwards and hits something hard and soft, feeling like a person, but his head was somewhere soft.
Naruto turns around to apologise, but he hears an angry yell and something big and hard hit his face, making him roll backwards by the force. "Ow! My nose!" Naruto yells in anger, looking to see a blond haired woman holding what looks like a sealed giant fan in her hands with a Naruto's face shaped imprint on it.
"That's what you get for running into me you little pervert!" The woman yells, soon gaining a chuckle from a guy in black and had a wrapped up object on his back watches in bemusement.
"Strange, I'm usually the one that beats up brats." He states while crossing his arms.
The group quickly go around the corner by the sound of something hard colliding with something even harder. "Naruto!" Konohamaru yells, rushing forward, not noticing Kankuro smirking and waving his hand and pulling his arm back. This causes Konohamaru to fly towards Kankuro, being caught by him who smashes the child into the fence wall, smirking.
"Annoying brats as well, I hate those younger than me." Kankuro states while Konohamaru coughs in pain, soon hearing Temari yelling in shock and anger, he looks to see her fan have a Naruto faced imprint on the fan's side. "...And I thought it looked ugly before." Kankuro laughs, gaining a glare from him. "Want another swing at him?" Kankuro asks her while looking at the others with him, Kankuro looks, seeing Hinata and tilts his head. 'Not bad...nice looking arse for a girl.' Kankuro thought to himself.
"Yes." Temari orders her younger brother.
Kankuro smirks and waves his hand while Naruto starts getting up, causing him to stop before he starts sliding forward, making him confused before he is thrown towards them. Temari swings her fan again, aiming to hit him in the side, but Naruto saw this coming and moves his hand, grabbing the fan from above and launches himself over it. Temari and Kankuro look in surprise before Naruto's heel smashes into Kankuro's face, making him fall backwards and roar in pain while releasing Konohamaru.
Naruto lands on the ground, his hand still on the fan before crouching and sliding his foot across the ground, swiping Temari's feet from below her. She hits the ground hard before he slides away with the fan in his left hand and Konohamaru in his right hand before smirking, looking at the two who are a little shocked by what happened.
After a minute of Konohamaru and his group admiring Naruto for his cool while Hinata is worried for what would come from this. "...That was kinda cool..." Temari admits, glad that she isn't hurt too badly from Naruto and looks at Kankuro. "You suck at your aim...you must be losing your touch." She tells him, getting up while rubbing her legs.
"Shut your mouth Temari!" Kankuro tells her in annoyance, rubbing his face in pain. "You did worse than me!" He complains, his paint on his face smeared. "I fucking hate midgets! Especially ones that make me look bad!" Kankuro yells, getting up and grabbing the wrapped bundle from his back, he is about to unwrap it, but something hard hits the side of his head. He looks blankly before he hits the floor, unconscious while Temari looks at him, her eyebrows raised in surprise and everyone looks to see someone in the trees.
Sasuke is seen standing on a large branch, glaring down at them. "What are you bastards doing in our village?" Sasuke asks the girl since Kankuro is unconscious at the very moment.
"Umm..." Temari simply replies before Kankuro groans in pain, trying to get up quickly, but his body is shaking violently while his head has a concussion.
"...I fucking...hate...brats..." Kankuro states, trying to not vomit while glaring at Sasuke. "...Fucking... punks..."
Temari suddenly pales in fear while Sasuke goes to pull out a kunai with his leg holder. "You two are pathetic." A dark voice is heard, making Sasuke stop in surprise, looking to the other side of the tree to see a red haired teenager with a gourd on his back.
"H-Hey Gaara..." Temari replies, quickly picking up Kankuro who is also scared, but couldn't stand by himself.
Gaara glares at them, killing intent felt amongst the people, having a sense of fear. "You were chosen for a reason, yet you shame yourselves in two moves." Gaara notes, his eyes emotionless, yet they seemed to scream murder at the same time.
Sasuke looks at Gaara in confusion and shock, wondering how he got so close without him noticing. "These...guys took...us by...surprise..." Kankuro tells him.
Gaara just glares at him. "Shut up...or I'll kill you." He says with darkness in his voice that made his companions shake in fear, the two began apologizing to Gaara before he vanishes from the branch in a whirlwind of sand and appeared in-between them. Gaara looks at Naruto, their eyes meeting and all they did was smirk, Naruto because he thinks he's found a better rival, Gaara because he wants to kill him. "Return my sister's fan." Gaara orders him, which Naruto complied.
Gaara nods at him before looking at Sasuke for a second, walking away while they carry their items and Temari assists Kankuro in walking.
"Hey!" Sasuke calls and lands on the ground. "What's your purpose in the village?" Sasuke asks them. "Because you're from a different village and we can't let you go without seeing your passes." Sasuke informs them.
"Y-Yes...he's right." Hinata says, speaking up for the first time.
Gaara looks back, pulling out a pass, Sasuke looks at it carefully, knowing that it is the right one and saw the words Chunin exams. "You're here for the Chunin exams?" Sasuke asks him.
"Yes." Gaara simply replies.
"You must be really clueless to not know that we're here for that and had to ask." Temari states with a smirk. "So you guys must not be going, shame, you guys are good." Temari tells them.
Sasuke glared at them. "What's your name?" He asks, gaining even more glares from Gaara.
"Gaara of the desert." Gaara informs him.
"Sasuke Uchiha." Sasuke replies with a smirk.
"I didn't want to know, you're not worth my time." Gaara replies before walking away with his siblings, leaving an annoyed Sasuke, the other Team 7 members and the three kids there.
"Naruto?" Someone calls from a distance; everyone looks to see a familiar face they were not expecting to see.
"Haku?" Naruto says in disbelief.
Haku quickly walks to them, he hadn't changed much since they last saw him, they also noticed two other people behind him. "How have you been?" Haku asks them with a smile.
"Great!" Naruto replies, excited from seeing the teenage boy is moving about since he near chose to kill him.
"Who's she boss?" Konohamaru asks Naruto, forgetting about the Sand ninja already.
"...'He's' Haku, I told you about him when I went to the land of Waves." Naruto tells him.
"W-Who are they?" Hinata asks Haku while Konohamaru looks in shock at Haku, Hinata gestures at the two behind Haku and found the taller one strangely familiar.
"Sorry, these are my new teammates, this is Takumi, and he is the only Genin to serve Zabuza during his coup d'état and survive...you've actually met when you fought Zabuza, he was my companion." Haku points to a tall guy, about 18 years old, he had his headband covering his hair, (like Ibiki) and had unusually dark lips and his neck was bandaged up like Zabuza's. He is wearing gray, oversized clothes and an oversized coat, making people wonder how he keeps them on, Naruto notices he was hiding something inside the back of his coat but paid no heed.
"That e-explains why he s-seems familiar..." Hinata notes as she looks at the man.
"And this is Kazue, our newest member to make Genin." Haku states while patting the girl next to him, making her blush like Hinata, she is around Naruto's age, and she has long black hair from under her headband that they could see. The girl is also wearing gray clothes but fitted her better than the other one, but everyone was slightly confused by one thing.
"She's your 'newest' Genin? You only had the village for less than a month." Sasuke states.
"Yes, but you'll be surprised by the number of rouge ninja we found in the Wave country, and many of them have families and were teaching them how to be a ninja." Haku informs them and looks at the girl. "We've now got enough Shinobi to guard the country by the new recruits of rouge ninja and possible Genin." Haku smiles.
"Thanks to me." The older Wave ninja tells them with a slightly arrogant voice. "Not even a thank you." He mumbles as he is the one to find out about them.
Everyone is slightly concerned by this new information. "H-How do y-you know that t-the new r-recruits w-won't riot?" Hinata asks them.
"All they want is a quiet life, and we who used to be rouge ninja as well allowed them to stay if they join the new Hidden village, and many didn't want to anger Zabuza." Haku chuckles, remembering some of their panicked faces when they recognised Zabuza.
"How many Shinobi do you have now?" Sasuke asks him.
"We started with 8 with Zabuza's followers...and now we've got 47, not including possible recruits." Haku states, making them stare in disbelief.
"...Oh...okay then...why are you here by the way?" Naruto asks him.
"Well, we're here for the Chunin exams, and since I'm not technically a Genin...Zabuza wants me to gain the rank and soon be as high a rank as him." Haku smiles, enjoying that Zabuza want him to be the same as him, rank and skill wise, not the bloody path. "We're running as Wave ninja." He tells them, pointing at his headband, which didn't show the sign of a Mist ninja, it had two wavy lines on top of each other.
"Oh come on! Are we the only ones that don't know of this Chunin exam?!" Naruto yells in annoyance.
Haku looks surprised by this. "Well, I'm sure your Sensei, Kakashi is going to tell you soon." Haku smiles again. "Since you are all powerful, Kaiju can even make me sweat." He says, making Naruto and Hinata smile at this while Sasuke in thinking on the other possible ninja that could be in the exams.
Little did they know, three foreign people were watching them from a distance. "What do you think?" One of them asks, watching the female one of the group write on a piece of paper.
"Nothing serious...we'll have to keep an eye on the black haired Leaf boy, the Sand ninja with the gourd and the new comer talking to them." The leader smiles, seeing a tiger striped cat with a jacket appear and the female placing the paper on the cat's jacket, who just vanishes into the bushes. "The blond may also be interesting."
Xxxxx
Later that same day, the three Genin in Team 7 were sent a message by Kakashi to come to the assigned meeting point. However, it has been a few hours later and Naruto is currently sleeping again with Hinata watching him and Sasuke watching Hinata.
Kakashi appears near them, waving like he usually does, but then threw a firecracker and they all shot up scared out of their mind thinking they were under attack. "Sorry I'm late, but I got lost in the way of life." Kakashi tells them, making them look at him with killing intent.
"You really are pushing my buttons Kakashi Sensei!" Naruto yells angrily.
"Anyway...I've nominated you all to go and do the Chunin exams." Kakashi tells them while reaching into his pocket.
"You think that makes up for what you di-" Naruto began to yell.
Kakashi holds out three pieces of paper. "And here are you applications." He tells them.
Naruto is now hugging Kakashi around the neck saying "I love you man."
Kakashi sighs. "Stop it...let go of me."
Naruto does let go in the end and takes his application and grins like a mad man. "This is great! Isn't it Hinata?" He asks her.
She blushes and nods in response. "Y-Yes Naruto-Kun." She says with a sweet smile.
"Although, this is just a nomination, whether you take the exam or not is up to you." Kakashi tells them, and he then tells them what time they have to be there tomorrow and what room at the academy before disappearing.
"Alright! I can't wait!" Naruto yells while walking with his teammates, Sasuke didn't say anything but is excited by thinking of all the possible opponents he'll have. While Hinata was deep in thought, scared and excited by the thought of passing with her teammates.
'Can I really do this test? I'm nowhere near Sasuke's or Naruto-Kun's level...but I don't want to be left behind...I want to be there to show my strength...what strength there is...' She says to herself.
"Come on Hinata! It's near lunch time!" Naruto call, she smiles a bit and quickly follows him.
Sleepless D: Hope you all like the updates, I'm sorry for any word changes that I haven't done for the future updates, please review. Peace out.