Chapter 21: Begin the Chunin Exams

Hello World! I meant to upload Monday, but during my training I got messed up hella bad and I could not for the life of me do much of anything. I'm still in pain, but not as much as Monday though. I want to say thank you all for your positive reviews and truthfully the day I uploaded chapter one, I never would have thought that this story would get as much praise as it's getting right now. So thank you all, I hope I don't let you all down.

I'D LIKE TO GIVE CREDIT TO 'backupacc', FOR TELLING ME OF WHAT I DID WRONG IN THIS CHAPTER. I'VE GONE BACK AND FIXED THE PROBLEMS AND EVERYTHING SHOULD BE GOOD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP backupacc! Stay Gold!

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The day had finally come, the Rookie 9 were rested and ready for the exams. Though Naruto had the day before learned of his sensei's love life, the downside of his love, trusting another Uchiha, and learning of a plan to help his sensei. But today that was the least of his worries since he, Hinata, and Shino had to get ready for the the day.

Naruto put on his black muscle shirt with an orange going down from his shoulder down to his side, black basketball shorts with the same orange line going from his hip down and down his legs, bandage wraps around his hands going up his forearm, black sandals and he wrapped his ninja pouch around his waist and his kunai holster on his right leg. Naruto looked at his clock and said, "I gotta go pick up my package from Ten-Ten Shinoda's shop today for sure." After getting ready he left his room and went to Hinata's door and knocked on it.

Hinata walked out in her new outfit which was a white v-neck ninja shirt with a hood and sleeves that passed her elbows, a fishnet shirt underneath it, a ninja pouch on her waist, black ninja pants, black sandals and a yin-yang symbol on the back of the shirt. "Morning Naru-kun, ready for today?" Naruto grinned and said, "Yeah, I'm ready to show everyone what I can do."

Hinata smiled and said, "Neji-nii already left to meet his squad for the exams." Naruto said, "I hope we all make it to the finals." Hinata and Naruto walked to the main gate only to run into Hiashi, Hana, Hanabi, Kana, and Aoi waiting for them.

Hana ran over to hug them both, "I'm so proud of you two." Naruto and Hinata returned the hug. Once it broke Hanabi ran to Hinata and said, "I'm gonna be rooting for you the whole time nee-chan."

Hinata said, "Thank you Hanabi." Aoi walked to Hinata and said, "Thanks Hinata-chan for helping me yesterday." Hinata said, "Don't thank me Aoi-nee." Aoi hugged Hinata and told her good luck.

Hiashi was looking at Naruto and said, "You've made me happy Naruto-kun. Your strong and reliable, don't let no one tell you anything different." Naruto said, "I'll make you proud Hiashi-ossan."

Kana hugged Naruto from behind and said, "Both of my boys will do great. Hizashi would be proud of you both." Naruto happily nodded, "Thanks Kana-oba."

Hiashi walked to Hinata and said, "Make sure he doesn't lose his temper." Hinata said, "Hai, tou-san." Hiashi hugged her and said, "Your stronger than me when I was your age, you will make a fine kunoichi."

Naruto walked next to Hinata and said, "Ready?" She looks at him and says, "Always." Both of them turned around and started walking away waving back at their family.

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* Ichirakus *

Shino was waiting outside the restaurant when he looked over his shoulder to see Hinata and Naruto making their way to him. "Good morning you two... Nervous?"

Naruto said, "Hell no! Squad 13 will definitely pass the exams!" Hinata giggled at Naruto's antics. Shino said, "Thats good to hear. Let's get going. We're suppose to meet the proctors at the academy."

Naruto said, "Hey can we make one quick stop at the weapons shop?" Hinata and Shino looked at him in disbelief. Hinata said, "Naruto your suppose to get your weapons before hand." Shino silently nodded in agreement.

Naruto said, "No it's not what you think. I had the owner of the shop make me a chakra sword, I had already paid him in advance with the money I had saved up, I asked him to make it when we came back home from Wave, but he said it would take some time since he had a lot of orders to fill out and that it would take a week to complete. He finally finished it yesterday, but as you guys know a lot happened yesterday and it slipped my mind."

Shino said, "Well let's hurry up and go pick it up." Naruto said, "Yes, let's hurry."

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* Shinoda Kengeki *

The trio quickly made their way to the weapons shop called 'Shinoda Kengeki' (Kengeki= Weapons). Naruto said to Shino and Hinata, "I'll be in and out as quick as I can." Both of them nodded and they watched him enter the shop.

Naruto opens the door leading inside and sees a middle aged man sitting at the front desk, "Hey, I'm here to pick up my order." The man looks at Naruto and says, "Oh yeah, your the kid who brought me that long katana sword and that black chakra receptor."

Naruto thought it would be best to have a weapons master make him a weapon that he would be able to use effectively. The katana was to long for him to wield and his chakra receptor saved his ass, but he felt it would do better as a sword. So when Neji told him how Ten-Ten's dad is a weapons master he couldn't wait to ask him to forge him a sword. At first glance the man knew that Oboro's long sword was a chakra blade that when you channel your chakra in it that it would convert and unleash that chakra into his element affinity. So he melted down both his chakra receptor and the long sword and combined them.

Naruto's blade was a pitch black katana with a flower design guard (Okay it's Zoro's Shuusui, I picked it because I like it and I just wanted him to have a weapon. He will mostly stick to hand to hand fighting, I just thought I'd add a noticeable weapon). Naruto sheaths the sword and straps it to his back, "Thanks a lot for this, Kensei-sama it looks great!"

Kensei said, "No problem kid, come back anytime if it needs to be repaired or sharpened." Naruto said, "Will do. See ya!" Kensei watches him leave and says to himself, "There is still some more metal from that long ass katana that can make another sword. Heh, I'll let him know when he comes back or I'll have Ten-Ten tell him."

Naruto leaves the shop to see Hinata and Shino waiting for him. Shino looks at the blade strapped to his back and asks, "Nice sword. Now let's go." Naruto nods and the three quickly run back to the place where they were made ninjas, Konoha Academy.

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* Konoha Academy *

Naruto, Shino and Hinata made it to the academy heading to big gym so that they could receive their orders on what to do next. Shino and Naruto stood on the opposite side of the two doors and both of them pushed the door open and they see an army of ninja with hitai-ite's ranging from Leaf, Sand, Grass, Sound, and Rain. Everyone turned their attention to look at the newcomers entering the room.

Gaara looked at Naruto and said, "So he's here. I'm actually looking forward to these exams now."

Kankuro thought, 'I'm gonna pay that kid back.'

Temari saw Naruto and thought, 'Gaara's right, now that Naruto Uzumaki is here this will be better.'

Out of nowhere Naruto felt someone hug him from behind, "Hello Naru-kun!" Hinata mentally sighs and thinks, 'I was hoping Ino wouldn't be here.' Shikamaru and Choji entered afterward and Shikamaru looked at Shino, "So you guys got here before us."

Choji had a worried look and said, "These guys all look really scary..." Ino let go of Naruto and looked at Choji, "Come on Choji don't wuss out now." Choji was now rethinking whether or not to do this.

Hinata felt a hand touch her shoulder and she turned around to see Neji, "Neji-nii, you made it." Naruto turned around and saw Neji, "Hey you made!"

Neji smiled and said, "You think I'd miss this." Naruto grinned and said, "What took you so long to get here?" Neji sighed, "Lee and Ten-Ten will be here soon. Lee got into an altercation with Sasuke Uchiha. So they should be here soon."

Naruto sighed, "A lot's been going on with the Uchiha lately huh?" Shikamaru looked behind him and saw Kiba, Akamaru, Sakura, Sasuke, Lee, and Ten-Ten enter the room finally.

Kiba says, "You guys should've seen it Sasuke got his ass whipped. It was hilarious." Ten-Ten couldn't help she decided to bust Kiba out, "Says the guy who Lee tripped and sent rolling away."

Kiba gave her a death glare and Sakura said, "Kiba leave Sasuke alone." Sasuke looked at Naruto noticing the sword on his back ,"Oi, dobe where did you get that sword?"

Naruto said, "Ten-Ten's dad made it for me. By the way Ten-Ten thanks for asking your dad to make it for me." Ten-Ten looked at Naruto and said, "No problem any friend of Neji's is a friend of mine."

Lee looked at Naruto and said, "Naruto..." Naruto made eye contact with Lee to hear what he had to say, "Naruto, so far there are only two people I really want to fight in these exams. The first is Neji-san and the second one is you. Your the only one outside of our team who was able to survive Gai-sensei's training sessions and I was told about how strong you've gotten in the last month and I want to experience your new found strength first hand."

Naruto said, "That's good to hear Lee. I'm looking forward to our fight." After everyone was collected Naruto looked around and noticed everyone was staring at them and as to not be intimidated Naruto yelled out, "What the fuck ya'll lookin at!?!" Some of the ninja's looked away while some looked pissed off.

From the corner a man with a purple outfit, gray hair, and glasses walked up, "They don't like you guys." Shino said, "And who are you?"

"Forgive me my name is Kabuto Yakushi and I must say I'm surprised that we have some rookies joining us this year." Sasuke said, "You got something against rookies?"

Kabuto said, "No I don't, but they do." He points at the ninja who looked like they were ready to kill. Naruto said out loud again, "I'm not gonna let some pansy asses scare me!"

Kiba said, "Naruto's right, we don't need to be intimidated by them." Kabuto said, "You guys got some fire in you. Let me see what I can find out about you guys." He pulls out some cards and says, "These are called 'Ninja Info Cards', they let me know about a ninja's rank, missions, village, and even a little information on them." He starts going through the Konoha 12 looking over their information, but when he comes to Squad 13 he says,

"Oh, this is amazing considering this squad just graduated this year:

Shino Aburame, Aburame clan's head son

Konoha ninja of Squad 13

Jounin Sensei: Itachi Uchiha

Age: 12

Height: 5'3 inches

Weight: 107 lbs.

Blood Type: AB

Rank: Gennin

Completed a high number of D-Rank missions in a short time, one C-Rank mission, and an A-Rank mission, scored the highest of all the male students in his graduating class, ranked third in his graduating class, specializes in bugs and is a registered Earth affinity type.

Hinata Hyuga, Hyuga clan head daughter

Konoha ninja of Squad 13

Jounin Sensei: Itachi Uchiha

Age: 12

Height: 4'10 inches

Weight: 84 lbs.

Blood Type: A

Rank: Gennin

Completed a high number of D-Rank missions in a short time, one C-Rank mission, and an A-Rank mission, ranked fourth in her graduating class, specializes in the Hyuga Clan's Jyuuken Style and is a registered Lightning affinity type.

and finally

Naruto Uzumaki, Hyuga clan's adoptive child

Konoha ninja of Squad 13

Jounin Sensei: Itachi Uchiha

Age: 12

Height: 5'3 inches

Weight: 110 lbs.

Blood Type: B

Rank: Genni

Completed a high number of D-Rank missions in a short time, one C-Rank mission, and an A-Rank mission, specializes in two taijutsus called Muay Thai & Brazilian Jui-Jitsu, has an abnormally large supply of chakra, ranked first in his graduating class, named 'Rookie of the Year', and has the main affinity of both Wind and Water.

(For Naruto I changed his height and weight just because I can. Hehehe awesome.)

Wow you guys have an impressive record considering that you all came out of the academy only this year."

Naruto looks at Kabuto and says, "Hey can you look up a ninja named Gaara no Sabaku from Sunagakure?" Kabuto groans and says, "Aw man you even know his name that's not much fun. Fine let's see what we got." He begins to pump chakra into the card and he reads out loud, "Gaara no Sabaku, son of the Yondaime Kazekage. It also says he's twelve like you guys, his height is 4'10 and he weighs about 89 lbs. His blood type is AB, part of Team Baki and... hmm, it seems he's completed a large number of missions, especially dangerous ones that no gennin should be able to do."

Three sound ninja were waiting in the corner and a man wrapped in mummy bandages said, "Let's show that arrogant blonde kid a lesson. Both of his partners agreed and they quickly sped through the crowd of ninja heading straight for Naruto. Naruto, Neji, and Kabuto saw them coming and all three reacted. Neji had his middle and index finger pointed at the woman's face leaving her standing there stunned.

Naruto got a man with a yellow shirt and spiky hair, he grabbed the man's wrists crossing both his arms across his chest then did a head but making his forehead protector hit him in his nose causing blood to come out.

Kabuto wasn't as lucky as the mummy rolled up his sleeve revealing a silver gauntlet that covered his whole right forearm. The sound nin made two punches at Kabuto missing each one. Kabuto backed up with a grin when out of nowhere his glasses broke and little trickles of blood came out from his ears. He fell down immediately holding his ears.

The mummy turned his attention to Naruto charging at him, Naruto reached for his new sword when both him and the mummy saw a wall of sand come up from between them. Both of them hopped away from the wall of sand and they heard a voice say, "I suggest you guys wait for the exams to begin first before you start fighting."

Naruto and the mummy looked over to see the one speaking was Gaara. Everyone had their eyes on Naruto and everyone else who was involved in the altercation also seeing the large amount of sand flow back into the giant gourd on Gaara's back.

The sound nin huffed and motioned for his squad to return to the corner that they were originally in. Naruto looks at Gaara when Kyuubi links and says, 'NARUTO, WHEN I GET A BETTER CHANCE I'LL TELL YOU WHO HE IS, RIGHT NOW THIS ISN'T A GOOD TIME. WITH THE EXAMS RIGHT NOW YOU ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH TO WORRY ABOUT.'

Naruto decided to walk over to Gaara and said, "A lot of strong ninja this year huh? By the way thanks for your assistance." Gaara kept his cold expression and said, "It was no problem. After just after scanning this room and after watching you performance I can only account for two strong people in this room and only one I have to worry about."

Naruto said, "And who would those two be?" Gaara had a sadistic grin and said, "Me and you, with you being the one I have to worry about." Naruto smiled, "Well I'm flattered. I really hope we do get to fight."

Gaara nods in agreement and then Naruto returns to his group. Naruto sees that both Hinata and Sakura are trying to heal Kabuto. Kabuto looks at Naruto and says, "Well I guess I wasn't so lucky." Naruto said to him, "Yeah at least you noticed them attacking."

Sasuke thought, 'Those three moved fast enough to stop those three. How strong are they?'

After waiting a few minutes a door on the opposite side of the room is flung open and a very large man appears. The man was tall and seemed well built, he had a black trench coat on, thick dark army style clothing, black gloves, noticeable scars on his face, and his leaf headband covered his whole head. The man had entered with two other men wearing the same outfit except for the coat.

"Listen up you maggots, my name is Ibiki Morino! From this point on I don't give a shit who you are or where you came from! I will be your proctor for this portion of the exams which is a written portion, so once you enter in this room behind me you'll be assigned a seat and you will take a ten question written exam! Am I understood!?" Yelled Ibiki. Slowly each ninja nodded, some where intimidated by this man while others found him as a hard ass, but Naruto thought, 'This guy is cool.'

Everyone followed him into a room and each was assigned a number to where they will be seated. No one was allowed to be assigned near their teammates so that they would have less help during the test. Once everyone was seated they all noticed a paper on their desk that was blank, Ibiki said, "Don't turn those papers over unless I tell you too."

Ibiki stood at the front and said, "Okay, let me explain the rules of this exam. As I have said before there are ten questions you must answer, though on the paper there are only nine question, because the tenth and final question is a verbal one. Also if you notice the ninja around you they are called Examiners. They are going to be looking out for cheaters and just to let you guys know their eyes are so good that they can see you move your eyes and can also tell the direction of where you are looking at. If they catch you cheating two times they will write your names down on the clipboards that they have with them, should they write your name a third time... Then consider yourself and your team dropped."

Some of the ninja in the room were wide eyed and shocked, "Do you all understand?" Ibiki finished with a grin.

Everyone nodded and then the test began. After about ten minutes that's when everyone started to cheat. Sasuke lifted up his bandage on his right eye to reveal a completed sharingan and started to mimic peoples writing, Sakura was really intelligent so she didn't need to cheat, Kiba had Akamaru bark answers to him from on top his head, Ino invaded someone's body and got the answers that way and delivered them to Shikamaru and Choji, Neji and Hinata used their byakugan to get the answers, Ten-Ten used a mirror with wires attached to it so it would be visible to her and Lee both of them looking off the papers from the reflection, Shino used his bugs to swarm and find out the answers, Shino then sent a small number of bugs to Naruto's desk and they started to make symbols that Naruto recognized to answer the questions, the Examiners saw the bugs, but the bugs were to close to Naruto's arm which was blocking their view of what was going on.

Ibiki smiled and said, 'This batch is interesting. Their methods of gathering information is really astounding.' Some of the Examiners caught a few people and the one caught had to leave and so did his/her squad. After the time limit ended Ibiki said, "Alright pencils down and turn your papers around!" Everyone did as they were told and sat up straight to listen.

"Just so you all know, I know that almost everyone here who didn't get caught cheated." Some of them looked worried and thought that they were in trouble, "But I expected you to cheat."

Ino yelled out, "If you knew that we'd cheat why didn't you say anything!"

Ibiki said, "That will be explained shortly, but now the rules for the final question."

Everyone was waiting in anticipation, "I want to know that if you all are serious about this final question, if not then your points are reduced to zero from the test you just took and... you and your other squad teammates fail too. Also if you take the question and you fail, but your other teammates pass it... then only you will lose the chance to take the Chunnin Exams for as long as you live! Your teammates however still have the option of becoming chunnin!"

Kiba stood up and yelled, "What Kind of bull shit is that!" Some of the other students agreed and started saying that that rule was unfair. Ibiki remained calm and said, "If you don't like it then you have the option of quitting... Those who are not confident can choose to not take it and take the exam next year, or the year after that. So it's either wait a whole year or two to try again or take the final question, risk failing it and staying a gennin forever. What's your choice?"

Some of the groups raised their hands and were asked to leave, walking away with their squads in shame. Afterwards only seventy-eight gennin stayed making a group of 26 Gennin teams. After the last of the groups that dropped out Ibiki looked at them and said, "Anyone else?"

No one rose their hands or spoke out saying they wanted out so he smiled and said, "Well I gotta say I'm impressed. You all pass." Everyone minus Naruto, Neji, Gaara, Sasuke, and Shino were shocked. "There is no final question, it was a trick to separate the weak from the strong. It was more of a take it now or become a failure."

Kiba yelled again, "What the hell then do the points from this test still count!?"

Ibiki shook his head, "No they don't. Like I said this test was meant to see how good your information gathering skills are. To see how far you can go without getting caught and I saw you all use a jutsu to find that very thing out, even so far as to relay messages between teams when needed. Information can be the very thing that keeps you alive on a mission or keeps a spot open for you in the afterlife with the shinigami. Unless you know what your mission is and what you encounter along the way, then you might as well take the mission without knowing what you just accepted." Everyone began to nod in agreement and understanding of why he did what he did.

Ibiki looked at the groups, but mostly glancing over at Naruto, Neji, Sasuke, and Shino thinking, 'Those four really are like their fathers. Even under a great amount of pressure, they show no emotion.' He makes a light smirk then says, "Now you all move on to the ne-"

Out of the corner of his eye he sees a figure crash through the window. Two kunais are thrown at the ceiling revealing a banner that read '2nd Part of Exams Presented by: Anko Mitarashi!' The purple haired woman appeared in front wearing a brown coat that showed off her chest, a black skirt, metal shin guards, and fishnet shirt. The woman yells out in a cheerful tone, "Alright my name is Anko Mitarashi! I'm your proctor for the second phase of the exams!" Everyone stares blankly at the woman who just crashed through the window.

Ibiki came from around the banner and said, "Your an annoyance, you know that right?" Anko narrowed her eyes at Ibiki before looking at everyone in the room. She whispers to Ibiki, "You let twenty-six gennin teams pass? You sure your not goin soft on them?"

Ibiki chuckled and said, "Maybe they are all just a better batch this year." Anko made a smirk and said, "Don't worry I'll drop the numbers down."

She takes two steps forward and says, "Okay let's get started, were heading over to training ground 44, otherwise known as 'The Forest of Death'! Let's move it!" Anko jumps out the same window she came through. Everyone gets up from their seats and they follow their teammates out of the room.

Naruto looks over at where Hinata sat and saw the expression on her face. He and Shino walked over to Hinata who didn't get up from her spot, "Hinata-chan, you okay?" said Naruto.

Hinata looked up at him and said, "Why that place... Why do we have to go there of all places?" Naruto put his hand on her shoulder and said, "Hinata-chan. Don't worry, everything will be okay."

Hinata was still unsure, but got up to leave with them and the group to the place she never wanted to return to.

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* Forest of Death Fence Perimeter

Everyone was gathered by one of the gates. Naruto and Hinata looked at the giant forest thinking, 'They made the fence bigger and put more warning signs up.'

Anko was in the front of the group and yelled, "Okay for this exam you must obtain these scrolls." Anko reaches into her pouch and pulls out two scrolls, one white and one brown, "One has on it called, 'Heaven' and the other is called, 'Earth'. "Each team will have one of these scrolls. The point is to obtain the other one from the other teams, by any means necessary."

Gaara said, "Even killing your opponent?" Anko looked at Gaara and said, "Yes." She looks back at the crowd, "Like the first exam, you should acquire information on the other squads so you don't run into an unnecessary fight. You have two days to acquire the other scroll, once you do head to the center of the forest to the tower, there will be food, water, a nice bed, and anything else you might need to recover. Oh and one more thing, don't open the scrolls before you reach the tower, otherwise something bad might happen."

Naruto said, "If your trying to scare us, it won't work." Anko looked at Naruto and said, "Oh, aren't you mister brave." She threw a kunai at Naruto scratching his face then appearing behind him with another to his throat. This caught him by startled him to say the least.

She said slyly, "I like guys like you." She licks the blood dripping down from his face then she senses it. She turns around to see a long tongue holding her kunai she threw.

The man who had a long tongue said, "I believe this belongs to you Anko-sama." Anko grins and says, "Why thank you." The man with the long tongue drops the kunai in Anko's hand, then walks back to his group.

Anko looks back at Naruto and whispers, "You taste very good." Naruto walks away from her and gives her a 'WTF' look. Hinata had a death glare at Anko then walks over to Naruto and grabs his arm. Anko thinks, 'So that's Hinata Hyuga. Kurenai said a lot about this girl.'

Anko ignores her glare and says, "Okay choose one of your teammates to go over to that tent and receive your scroll and this waiver saying that we are not held responsible for what ever happens to you in the forest." After saying that she walks over to lean on the gate.

Shino walks over to Naruto and Hinata, "So which one of us should it be?" Hinata said, "I'll go get the things we need." She starts to head to the tent before turning around to look at them and says, "Shino, make sure no other girl comes near him." Shino said, "Hai, Hinata." Hinata continues to head to the tent.

Naruto said, "What is it about me that brings women with a threatening atmosphere?" Shino said, "I would tell you if I knew the answer to that."

Not to far away the three sound ninjas that attacked Naruto were talking, the mummy said, "That blonde boy is the one Orochimaru-sama told us about."

The female said, "Dosu, Orochimaru-sama also said to tread carefully when trying to deal with him and what we tried to pull off in the gym wasn't so smart." The other man with spike hair said, "Relax Kin. If it gets to serious you can hide in a bush somewhere while me and Dosu encounter him."

Kin said, "Look I'm just trying to make sure we are all still alive once we get this assignment over with and don't take me for a weakling Zaku."

Zaku laughs and says, "Yeah, well that Naruto guy doesn't look tough, I wasn't ready when he hit me. Same goes for the girl and shades there." Dosu says, We will carry out Orochimaru's orders. Either we capture him and bring him to Orochimaru-sama or we kill him."

Zaku said, "Let's go with the last one." Kin sighs then leaves to go get the scroll and the waivers.

Hinata comes back with a heaven scroll and the waivers. Everyone signs the papers and Hinata returns the waivers and says, "Okay when I went to the front desk they said we go start at Gate 7." Naruto said, "Alright let's get goin then."

The trio stop at the entrance that had the number seven on it. Shino says, "What will we do about the scroll?" Naruto said, "Oh I got a solution to that." Naruto bites his thumb, does some hand signs and yells, "Summoning Jutsu!" From the smoke out pops Gamakichi, "Yo, what's up boss?"

Naruto said, "Nice to see you again. Hey listen I need a favor." Gamakichi says, "What do ya need?" Naruto holds the scroll and says, "I need you to hold onto this and keep it safe with you till I summon you back."

Gamakichi says, "That all. Sure I can do that." Gamakichi jumps up to Naruto and snatches the scroll from his hand, "Don't worry boss I'll keep it safe."

Naruto grins and says, "I knew I could count on you." Gamakichi disappears later in a puff. The speakers by the gates turn on and they hear, "All squads get ready for the exam to start."

Naruto looks at Hinata and Shino and says, "Ready?" Putting his hand in the center. Hinata puts her hand on top and says, "Always." Shino puts his hand on top of hers and says, "We came all this way, it would be idiotic to turn back now." The three make a smile then toss their hands in the air yelling, "For Squad 13!"

The speakers flare up again and they hear, "The door will open in 5..." Naruto, Hinata, and Shino get in a ready position, "4..." Sasuke, Kiba, Sakura, and Akamaru at gate 12 get ready, "3..." Neji, Ten-Ten, and Lee were at gate 2 ready to go, "2..." Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji were waiting at gate 5 ready, "1..." finally Gaara, Kankuro and Temari were at Gate 10 ready.

"GO!!!" was the last thing they heard blaring over the speakers before the gates opened automatically. All the squads rushed in each with a determination to win and each with a separate thought in mind.

Naruto, 'This is gonna be fun.'

Hinata, 'I won't disappoint Naruto.'

Shino, 'We won't fail.

Sasuke, 'I can't lose."

Gaara, 'I'll prove my existence.'

Neji, 'Time to see how strong I am.'

Lee, 'Flames of Youth Ignite!!!'

Dosu, 'For Lord Orochimaru.'

(TO BE CONTINUED...)

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AGAIN CREDIT GOES TO backupacc FOR FINDING THE PROBLEMS IN THE STORY. THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP.

Here's some news, the whole Aoi/Itachi situation will be resolved... Just not right now. Look forward to the Chapter 22: 'He's Back!'. Well just remember to R&R, Stay Gold! And finally Goodbye World!

P.S.

- As I mentioned in the story there was enough metal from Oboro's sword to make a second one. If you have any ideas send me a description, a link to a picture, or whatever. Afterwards I will set up a poll to let you all decide who it should belong to. Thank you for your time and Peace Out!