In this story, Shikamaru didn't become a chuunin yet.
The Chuunin Exams: Part I
Hyuuga Hinata was asked to go to the Hokage's office with her team. Kiba and Akamaru, being fully recovered like Lee and Chouji (Neji had already fully recovered because of the special ointment that the Hyuuga clan has). Hinata was thinking of Naruto as her two teammates and Kurenei-sensei (This might be wrong spelling) were just talking about random things. She thought about when he was going to come back and how much stronger he would be when he did. When they finally reached the Hokage's office, she was finally pulled back down to Konoha by Kurenei-sensei who snapped her out of it. "Now, I will be giving your team another mission. You will ne-""Hokage- sama, we've have been reported that a blonde hair boy with blue eyes and another older man similar to him, are coming to Konoha right now. Naruto is back!" A messenger reported.
"Okay, I will go right now. I want to greet him personally," Tsunade said getting up to leave.
"What about us?" Kiba asked as Akamaru gave a little bark.
"Nevermind, I shall tell you about this mission later. After all, it isn't that important." Tsunade said leaving.
Hinata had been in another world again when she heard that Naruto was back, but finally cam back to her senses in little time. "May I be excused?" She asked Kurenei.
"Sure Hinata." Kurenei answered.
"Me too." Kiba asked.
"Of course." Kurenei answered a second time.
The two left and both headed for the front gate to greet Naruto. They didn't ask each other why they wanted to go see Naruto so they just traveled in silence. They arrived just in time to see Naruto in the horizon with his cousin. When they got even closer, they could see that Naruto was smiling. Hinata blushed a little. Kiba shouted, "Oi, Naruto, hurry up baka."
"Eh? Kiba? Shouldn't you be in the hospital with the others?" Naruto answered, or actually, questioned.
"We all healed pretty quickly and got out about 2 weeks ago."
"Ahhh. Hello, Hinata-chan." Naruto greeted.
"Hello, Naruto-kun," Hinata said looking away because she realized that Naruto was looking at her. Now her cheeks were beet red because of embarrassment.
'Why is she always like that?' Naruto asked himself. 'Oh well, I guess she hasn't changed.'
Tsunade just stood there smiling, pleased that his 'brother' was back. Naruto embraced with Kiba, and acted as if he hadn't known Tsunade was there. "Who's the big guy that looks practically identical to you," Kiba whispered. "He even kind of smells like you. He has that same ramen scent."
"Oh, him? Spikey?" Naruto asked pointing at Shintu who had began a conversation witht the Hokage. "He's my cousin."
"I see, so you have family after all." Kiba said.
"Yep"
"You're Kiba right? And you're Hyuuga Hinata no doubt. With those pure white eyes, of course you are." Shintu remarked.
All this time, Hinata just stood there blushing and still looking away from Naruto and nodded at Shintu's inference.
Naruto looked up at Tsunade as if he finally noticed her, "Hey, old hag, this is a pretty puney welcoming party. Not trying to be offensive," Naruto whispered at the two Genins.
"Naruto, be more polite to your Hokage, baka," Shintu said, punching him in the head.
"Ow." Naruto reacted playfully.
"Well, no one else knew you were coming." Tsunade shrugged.
"Oh well." Naruto sighed, "Do you know were Sakura or Sasuke or Shikamaru are?"
"Ummm. Sasuke's with Kakashi-sensei, training. Sakura's God knows where, and Shikamaru is just laying down in the open field where we had our Genin test in, you know?" Kiba asked.
"Yeah, yeah,"
"He's over there, lying down, staring at the clouds, I think." "Arf!" Akamaru replied. "Well, he's either there or playing shogi," Kiba replied to his dog. "By the way, Naruto, did you learn anything cool?"
"Oh, some jutsus here and there. Nothing that serious." Naruto said, grinning "Oh, by the way, old hag, the Chuunin Exam's coming up right?"
"Yep. You'll come right?"
"Of course, of course." Naruto replied with an even wider grin.
"Well, it was good meeting you, Kiba, Hinata, Hokage-sama." Shintu said nodding at the three. "I think I'm going to go visit Jiraiyi-sama. It's been a while since I've seen him, but first I am going to look for Koichi. Bye." Then he took off.
"Well, I think I'll go visit Shikamaru first." Naruto stated. "Good seeing you again, Kiba, Hinata," He said nodding at both of them. Hinata, just looked away again and blushed. Naruto smiled at her 'She's actually pretty cute now that I think of it.' Naruto thought. He waved his hand at the three, then left. Tsunade, just stood there smiling, 'I wonder how much you've grown, Naruto. How strong are you now?'
--= END OF SCENE =--
As Naruto saw Shikamaru laying there staring up into space, he tried to sneak up on him but accidentally snapped a twig. He froze as Shikamaru stood up alert, "Who's there? Shadow Mimic no jutsu," He said as his shadow stretched out to the hiding person. Shikamaru stepped forward just as Naruto came out of the bushes, "Ummmm, Shikamaru, would you mind letting you Shadow retreat." Naruto smiled innocently.
"Naruto, when did you get back?" Shikamaru grinned as he undid he shadow.
"Oh, just a few minutes ago. A pretty bad welcoming party came though. It only consisted of the old hag Hokage, Hinata, and Kiba." Naruto said scratching his head, "You would think that someone this important would get more of a party." Naruto grinned, scratching the back of his head.
"Naruto, you're the same person. You've been training hard I see," Shikamaru said seeing that Naruto's clothes were all torn up.
"Yep, but don't worry about the clothes, I've got extra."
"Well, good to see you."
"Yep. I'm gonna go look for more friends. See ya Shikamaru." Naruto said as he left in search of Iruka.
--= END OF SCENE =--
Naruto found his former sensei teaching the kids near the academy. As he tried to sneak up behind him Iruka notice that Konohamaru was chuckling wildly looking past Iruka. "What's the matter Konohamaru?" Iruka asked looking behind him. At that point Naruto had already hid himself behind bushes. When Iruka resumed teaching, Naruto showed up again tiptoeing toward Iruka and signaling that he was going to kill Konohamaru for almost exposing him. When Naruto was about to tap Iruka's shoulder, Iruka turned around and said, "Naruto, stop trying to do that. It's getting annoying, baka."
"Aww, how did you know it was me Iruka-sensei?" Naruto asked.
"First, you would never miss the Chuunin exam and second, your not very good at hiding you know. Your even worse than Konohamaru at times." Iruka stated.
Naruto was mad when he heard this, but Konohamaru just chuckled. "HIM...BETTER THAN ME AT THIS?!" Naruto asked pointing at Konohamaru in disbelief.
"Well, it's true." Iruka said calmly. "Now, can you please leave? Your disrupting my class. When class is finished, I'll talk with you. And Naruto...don't leave again without telling me yourself."
Naruto just left, speechless and angry. Konohamaru and the rest of the class burst out in laughter as Naruto left.
'Oh well,' Naruto thought, 'I guess I'll just go back home.'
--= END OF SCENE =--
The next few days, Naruto spent alone. Shintu and Koichi had left him for a while to stay with Jiraiyi. Naruto warned them about Ero Sennin being a Super Pervert, but they just said Naruto was talking nonsense. Shintu had asked Jiraiyi how long it took Naruto to get the rasengan and Jiraiyi said the same thing Naruto said. Outside, Shintu refused to believe it, but inside, he knew perfectly well that Naruto was capable of it. After all, he had gotten to know Naruto a little better during the training. He had gotten a chance to meet Naruto's fighting spirit.
Naruto had his little talk with Iruka-sensei which was at Ichiraku's ramen place, no surprise there. All they really talked about was the chuunin exam. Iruka would often ask Naruto how much he hjad learned, but Naruto would never tell him. "You'll see." Naruto would always answer.
On the week of the chuunin exams, Naruto had decided to relax. The first thing he did, was to go look for Hinata. Naruto had began to like Hinata. She was kind, and pretty cute too. She was rather shy, but Naruto kind of liked girls like that. That was the only characteristic that he used to hate about Sakura, but now he had gotten over her and now was going for Hinata. He always looked for Hinata after breakfast. Then, after he found her, they would talk, and he would eventually leave. Hinata had gotten more used to Naruto looking at her, and began to look up instead of down when looked at by Naruto. She still blushed, but it wasn't as strong as before. When Naruto left, he would always wander around looking for things to do, and then finally find something.
On the night before the chuunin exams, Naruto couldn't sleep. He just couldn't. He tried closing his eyes, but they would just find a way to open themselves again. So Naruto thought, he thought about his training, especially the last day when he fought with Shintu.
/ FLASHBACK /
"ARRONKOGAN!" Naruto yelled as he did a hand seals. Now, the Arronkogan had a unique look. On the two sides of the eye, there was a spiral, the outside end of the spiral connected with the edge of the eye on both sides. The spiral lines were bright blue, but the pupil was red like the Sharingan.
Naruto tried giving Shintu hard and unexpected blows, but Shintu blocked them all, until the very end when he got tired. "Fuuton Renku Dan (Wind Element: Continuous Airwave.)." Naruto shouted as a big ball of clear chakra came out of his mouth and was about to hit Shintu until...
"Wind Element: Invisible Wall no jutsu," Shintu shouted as the airwave was destroyed when it hit what looked like a camouflaged, moving wall. Shintu then threw several kuneis to the two sides of naruto then threw one in the center, and with great speed, Naruto dodged the kuneis and managed to throw some of his own from under Shintu which surprisd Naruto's cousin and earned him a small scrape off of the leg. (Just so you know, they were fighting in the forest by the beach.)
/ END OF FLASHBACK /
Then Naruto began thinking about how much Sasuke might've improved. Then he thought about Hinata. He wondered whether Hinata thought the same way about him as him to her, and decided she did. He thought about Hinata some more until he finally fell asleep at around 12:30 in the morning.
--= END OF SCENE =--
Next morning, Naruto woke up late, but he didn't really care, after all, the Chuunin Exams didn't start for another hour or so. When Naruto woke up, he decided to go find Shintu and the perverted hermit before the start of the Chuunin Exams. Apparently, Sasuke and Kakashi weren't back yet from training, but Naruto wasn't worried. After all, Kakashi was always late. Naruto, got dressed, and left after eating his breakfast which was ramen. He quickly made his way to the super pervert's apartment and knocked on the door, "Ero Sennin, Spikey? Is any one home?"
Koichi opened the door, "Ahhhh, Naruto, so today's the beg day, eh? Come on in."
"Thanks, Koichi-chan," Naruto said. Naruto walked into the main room and saw Shintu and Jiraiyi sitting there.
"Oi, Naruto. Come here." Jiraiyi greeted.
"Ohiyo, Naruto." Shintu said.
"Ohiyo, Ero Sennin and Shintu." Naruto greeted back.
"So...today's the day eh?" Shintu asked.
"You'd better do well Naruto or else Shintu's training would've been in vain," Jiraiyi said.
"Sure, sure, ero sennin." Naruto replied.
They talked a little more about what Naruto learned and made him review all of the techniques. Then, when half an hour went by, they said their good- byes and good lucks, and Naruto left for the Academy.
When he got to room 301, he was greeted by Sakura, "Ohiyo, Naruto."
"Ohhhh. Sakura-chan. I haven't seen you in a while. Wow. You're taller." Naruto said.
"Really?" Sakura giggled, blushing a bit.
"Yep. Now, I wonder where Sasuke and Kakashi-sensei are. They're always la- "Naruto was cut off by a puff of smoke and two ninjas standing right in front of him.
"Oi, Naruto, how'd your training go?" the silver-haired Jounin asked curiostly. "Fine, just fine." Naruto replied glaring at Sasuke seeing that he was much stronger.
"You guys ready?" Sasuke asked in his 'cool' tone.
"Yep!" Sakura and Naruto chorused together.
"Then let's go win us another rank." Sasuke said leading his team into the room. (That remark probably sounded pretty stupid, but I couldn't think of anything else.)
When the three genins entered the room, it looked just like last time. All of these weird looking people staring at them, but since they had been here last time, they had recognized some friendly faces and some not so friendly ones. The sound group that was there last time was still there, Gaara and his group were also there, but they didn't look as ruthless as last time, Shikamaru's group was there, as well as Kiba's and Neji's. There was only one group of Konoha rookies. They eyed the other nine former rookies and whispered to each other about them.
"Oi, Naruto," Shikamaru and Kiba said at practically the same time. With the two came there teams, Shikamaru's, which consisted of Shikamaru, Ino, and Chouji, and Kiba's, which had Kiba, Shino, and Hinata. The nine genins that were rookies last year, came together in a group and began multiple conversations. Ino and Sakura were fighting over Sasuke, like always, and Naruto, Kiba, Shikamaru and Chouji were just talking. Hinata stood there staring at Naruto. When Naruto noticed this, he gave her a wave and then continued to talk more. Hinata just stood there, still staring at Naruto, and watching him talk away.
"This is so troublesome." Hinata heard Shikamaru complain. "So many people, this gets annoying."
"Oi, Naruto, what new moves did you learn when you were training?" Kiba asked curiostly, this got Shikamaru's attention too.
"Oh nothing, just some jutsus and other stuff." Naruto lied.
"Well, you probably learned more than me, I only learned another shadow attack." Shikamaru said.
"Well, whatever you learned, I'm not going to lose to you this time, Naruto," Kiba stated as Akamaru gave a bark of approval. "You're not the only one who learned a few new things." Kiba told him.
Then, Neji's team came over. Sakura saw and waved a 'hi' to Lee. Lee, taking this as an invitation, went to ask Sakura on another date. Neji just stood there staring at Naruto. Naruto noticed this and asked, "What?"
"Oh nothing, I just wanted to wish you luck before the tournament, and this time , you won't win, got it?" Neji said with a slight smile.
"mmm." Naruto 'said' with a nod of approval. Tenten just kind of stared at Sasuke. 'It's that cute guy.' She said to herself 'I think I'll go have a talk with him' she thought, so she left for Sasuke. Neji just stared endlessly at Naruto.
Hinata now became I little bit frightened, but still stayed still. Shikamaru and Kiba were busy talking to each other behind Naruto, "Hey, Shikamaru, what do you think Naruto's learned with that guy?"
"Dunno. He'll probably show us later."
"Yeah, you pro-"
"OI! EVERYONE, BE QUIET." A voice yelled over the entire group of shinobis. Everyone turned around to see a tall shinobi with a scar that went across his face. "I am Morino Ibiki. I am in charge of the first part of the Chuunin Exams and I will surely make it the last time you ever attend." The Jounin announced.
"He said the same thing last time." Shikamaru whispered.
"Now, you will all be takne to one room. You will be blindfolded and you must stay in the center of the room. If you more from that spot, you fail. You must somehow use your skills to find out what's in front of you. If you correctly get the item in front of you, then you will pass this part of the exam. Oh yeah, and you only have five minutes to figure out what the item is. If you fail, your whole team fails. And one more thing, your not allowed to use a Bunshin to see it. Got it?" Ibiki stated just as the examiners arrived. "Good. Now the following people follow the first examiner and so on." The mental torture expert ordered as he began calling out names. (Basically, the examiners stand in a line and when one Genin is called, that genin goes with the first examiner in line and so on.)
This part of the first part of the Chuunin exam was easy for most of the Konoha Genins. Gaara just used his third eye. Kankuro turned his doll. Temari uhhhh...ummm Temari...I am not sure what she does but she passes that part. Shikamaru used his shadow mimic to take control of the examiner and have him hold out the item for Shikamaru. Ino used her body taking technique to find out. He did that technique that turns him into a big ball and felt the item with his tummy. Kiba used his nose (He wasn't allowed to use Akamaru). Shino used his bugs. Hinata and Neji both used byankugan. Lee used his super speed to take off his cloth and put it back on without the examiner noticing (Lee got much faster). The cloth on Tenten was short so tenten was able to see above her and used mirrors. Sasuke used his Sharingan. Sakura used genjutsu to make it look like she still had her cloth on even though she didn't (she also learned some taijutsu). And Naruto used his Arronkogan.
In the end, all except for 29 teams, which included 7 from Konoha (including Gaara's team) 5 from the village of sound, 4 from the village of Grass, 4 from the village of waterfall, and 9 from the village of mist, failed. (Note: There were about 61 teams to begin with.)
"Now," a new voice appeared before the genin, "For test two."
The Chuunin Exams: Part I
Hyuuga Hinata was asked to go to the Hokage's office with her team. Kiba and Akamaru, being fully recovered like Lee and Chouji (Neji had already fully recovered because of the special ointment that the Hyuuga clan has). Hinata was thinking of Naruto as her two teammates and Kurenei-sensei (This might be wrong spelling) were just talking about random things. She thought about when he was going to come back and how much stronger he would be when he did. When they finally reached the Hokage's office, she was finally pulled back down to Konoha by Kurenei-sensei who snapped her out of it. "Now, I will be giving your team another mission. You will ne-""Hokage- sama, we've have been reported that a blonde hair boy with blue eyes and another older man similar to him, are coming to Konoha right now. Naruto is back!" A messenger reported.
"Okay, I will go right now. I want to greet him personally," Tsunade said getting up to leave.
"What about us?" Kiba asked as Akamaru gave a little bark.
"Nevermind, I shall tell you about this mission later. After all, it isn't that important." Tsunade said leaving.
Hinata had been in another world again when she heard that Naruto was back, but finally cam back to her senses in little time. "May I be excused?" She asked Kurenei.
"Sure Hinata." Kurenei answered.
"Me too." Kiba asked.
"Of course." Kurenei answered a second time.
The two left and both headed for the front gate to greet Naruto. They didn't ask each other why they wanted to go see Naruto so they just traveled in silence. They arrived just in time to see Naruto in the horizon with his cousin. When they got even closer, they could see that Naruto was smiling. Hinata blushed a little. Kiba shouted, "Oi, Naruto, hurry up baka."
"Eh? Kiba? Shouldn't you be in the hospital with the others?" Naruto answered, or actually, questioned.
"We all healed pretty quickly and got out about 2 weeks ago."
"Ahhh. Hello, Hinata-chan." Naruto greeted.
"Hello, Naruto-kun," Hinata said looking away because she realized that Naruto was looking at her. Now her cheeks were beet red because of embarrassment.
'Why is she always like that?' Naruto asked himself. 'Oh well, I guess she hasn't changed.'
Tsunade just stood there smiling, pleased that his 'brother' was back. Naruto embraced with Kiba, and acted as if he hadn't known Tsunade was there. "Who's the big guy that looks practically identical to you," Kiba whispered. "He even kind of smells like you. He has that same ramen scent."
"Oh, him? Spikey?" Naruto asked pointing at Shintu who had began a conversation witht the Hokage. "He's my cousin."
"I see, so you have family after all." Kiba said.
"Yep"
"You're Kiba right? And you're Hyuuga Hinata no doubt. With those pure white eyes, of course you are." Shintu remarked.
All this time, Hinata just stood there blushing and still looking away from Naruto and nodded at Shintu's inference.
Naruto looked up at Tsunade as if he finally noticed her, "Hey, old hag, this is a pretty puney welcoming party. Not trying to be offensive," Naruto whispered at the two Genins.
"Naruto, be more polite to your Hokage, baka," Shintu said, punching him in the head.
"Ow." Naruto reacted playfully.
"Well, no one else knew you were coming." Tsunade shrugged.
"Oh well." Naruto sighed, "Do you know were Sakura or Sasuke or Shikamaru are?"
"Ummm. Sasuke's with Kakashi-sensei, training. Sakura's God knows where, and Shikamaru is just laying down in the open field where we had our Genin test in, you know?" Kiba asked.
"Yeah, yeah,"
"He's over there, lying down, staring at the clouds, I think." "Arf!" Akamaru replied. "Well, he's either there or playing shogi," Kiba replied to his dog. "By the way, Naruto, did you learn anything cool?"
"Oh, some jutsus here and there. Nothing that serious." Naruto said, grinning "Oh, by the way, old hag, the Chuunin Exam's coming up right?"
"Yep. You'll come right?"
"Of course, of course." Naruto replied with an even wider grin.
"Well, it was good meeting you, Kiba, Hinata, Hokage-sama." Shintu said nodding at the three. "I think I'm going to go visit Jiraiyi-sama. It's been a while since I've seen him, but first I am going to look for Koichi. Bye." Then he took off.
"Well, I think I'll go visit Shikamaru first." Naruto stated. "Good seeing you again, Kiba, Hinata," He said nodding at both of them. Hinata, just looked away again and blushed. Naruto smiled at her 'She's actually pretty cute now that I think of it.' Naruto thought. He waved his hand at the three, then left. Tsunade, just stood there smiling, 'I wonder how much you've grown, Naruto. How strong are you now?'
--= END OF SCENE =--
As Naruto saw Shikamaru laying there staring up into space, he tried to sneak up on him but accidentally snapped a twig. He froze as Shikamaru stood up alert, "Who's there? Shadow Mimic no jutsu," He said as his shadow stretched out to the hiding person. Shikamaru stepped forward just as Naruto came out of the bushes, "Ummmm, Shikamaru, would you mind letting you Shadow retreat." Naruto smiled innocently.
"Naruto, when did you get back?" Shikamaru grinned as he undid he shadow.
"Oh, just a few minutes ago. A pretty bad welcoming party came though. It only consisted of the old hag Hokage, Hinata, and Kiba." Naruto said scratching his head, "You would think that someone this important would get more of a party." Naruto grinned, scratching the back of his head.
"Naruto, you're the same person. You've been training hard I see," Shikamaru said seeing that Naruto's clothes were all torn up.
"Yep, but don't worry about the clothes, I've got extra."
"Well, good to see you."
"Yep. I'm gonna go look for more friends. See ya Shikamaru." Naruto said as he left in search of Iruka.
--= END OF SCENE =--
Naruto found his former sensei teaching the kids near the academy. As he tried to sneak up behind him Iruka notice that Konohamaru was chuckling wildly looking past Iruka. "What's the matter Konohamaru?" Iruka asked looking behind him. At that point Naruto had already hid himself behind bushes. When Iruka resumed teaching, Naruto showed up again tiptoeing toward Iruka and signaling that he was going to kill Konohamaru for almost exposing him. When Naruto was about to tap Iruka's shoulder, Iruka turned around and said, "Naruto, stop trying to do that. It's getting annoying, baka."
"Aww, how did you know it was me Iruka-sensei?" Naruto asked.
"First, you would never miss the Chuunin exam and second, your not very good at hiding you know. Your even worse than Konohamaru at times." Iruka stated.
Naruto was mad when he heard this, but Konohamaru just chuckled. "HIM...BETTER THAN ME AT THIS?!" Naruto asked pointing at Konohamaru in disbelief.
"Well, it's true." Iruka said calmly. "Now, can you please leave? Your disrupting my class. When class is finished, I'll talk with you. And Naruto...don't leave again without telling me yourself."
Naruto just left, speechless and angry. Konohamaru and the rest of the class burst out in laughter as Naruto left.
'Oh well,' Naruto thought, 'I guess I'll just go back home.'
--= END OF SCENE =--
The next few days, Naruto spent alone. Shintu and Koichi had left him for a while to stay with Jiraiyi. Naruto warned them about Ero Sennin being a Super Pervert, but they just said Naruto was talking nonsense. Shintu had asked Jiraiyi how long it took Naruto to get the rasengan and Jiraiyi said the same thing Naruto said. Outside, Shintu refused to believe it, but inside, he knew perfectly well that Naruto was capable of it. After all, he had gotten to know Naruto a little better during the training. He had gotten a chance to meet Naruto's fighting spirit.
Naruto had his little talk with Iruka-sensei which was at Ichiraku's ramen place, no surprise there. All they really talked about was the chuunin exam. Iruka would often ask Naruto how much he hjad learned, but Naruto would never tell him. "You'll see." Naruto would always answer.
On the week of the chuunin exams, Naruto had decided to relax. The first thing he did, was to go look for Hinata. Naruto had began to like Hinata. She was kind, and pretty cute too. She was rather shy, but Naruto kind of liked girls like that. That was the only characteristic that he used to hate about Sakura, but now he had gotten over her and now was going for Hinata. He always looked for Hinata after breakfast. Then, after he found her, they would talk, and he would eventually leave. Hinata had gotten more used to Naruto looking at her, and began to look up instead of down when looked at by Naruto. She still blushed, but it wasn't as strong as before. When Naruto left, he would always wander around looking for things to do, and then finally find something.
On the night before the chuunin exams, Naruto couldn't sleep. He just couldn't. He tried closing his eyes, but they would just find a way to open themselves again. So Naruto thought, he thought about his training, especially the last day when he fought with Shintu.
/ FLASHBACK /
"ARRONKOGAN!" Naruto yelled as he did a hand seals. Now, the Arronkogan had a unique look. On the two sides of the eye, there was a spiral, the outside end of the spiral connected with the edge of the eye on both sides. The spiral lines were bright blue, but the pupil was red like the Sharingan.
Naruto tried giving Shintu hard and unexpected blows, but Shintu blocked them all, until the very end when he got tired. "Fuuton Renku Dan (Wind Element: Continuous Airwave.)." Naruto shouted as a big ball of clear chakra came out of his mouth and was about to hit Shintu until...
"Wind Element: Invisible Wall no jutsu," Shintu shouted as the airwave was destroyed when it hit what looked like a camouflaged, moving wall. Shintu then threw several kuneis to the two sides of naruto then threw one in the center, and with great speed, Naruto dodged the kuneis and managed to throw some of his own from under Shintu which surprisd Naruto's cousin and earned him a small scrape off of the leg. (Just so you know, they were fighting in the forest by the beach.)
/ END OF FLASHBACK /
Then Naruto began thinking about how much Sasuke might've improved. Then he thought about Hinata. He wondered whether Hinata thought the same way about him as him to her, and decided she did. He thought about Hinata some more until he finally fell asleep at around 12:30 in the morning.
--= END OF SCENE =--
Next morning, Naruto woke up late, but he didn't really care, after all, the Chuunin Exams didn't start for another hour or so. When Naruto woke up, he decided to go find Shintu and the perverted hermit before the start of the Chuunin Exams. Apparently, Sasuke and Kakashi weren't back yet from training, but Naruto wasn't worried. After all, Kakashi was always late. Naruto, got dressed, and left after eating his breakfast which was ramen. He quickly made his way to the super pervert's apartment and knocked on the door, "Ero Sennin, Spikey? Is any one home?"
Koichi opened the door, "Ahhhh, Naruto, so today's the beg day, eh? Come on in."
"Thanks, Koichi-chan," Naruto said. Naruto walked into the main room and saw Shintu and Jiraiyi sitting there.
"Oi, Naruto. Come here." Jiraiyi greeted.
"Ohiyo, Naruto." Shintu said.
"Ohiyo, Ero Sennin and Shintu." Naruto greeted back.
"So...today's the day eh?" Shintu asked.
"You'd better do well Naruto or else Shintu's training would've been in vain," Jiraiyi said.
"Sure, sure, ero sennin." Naruto replied.
They talked a little more about what Naruto learned and made him review all of the techniques. Then, when half an hour went by, they said their good- byes and good lucks, and Naruto left for the Academy.
When he got to room 301, he was greeted by Sakura, "Ohiyo, Naruto."
"Ohhhh. Sakura-chan. I haven't seen you in a while. Wow. You're taller." Naruto said.
"Really?" Sakura giggled, blushing a bit.
"Yep. Now, I wonder where Sasuke and Kakashi-sensei are. They're always la- "Naruto was cut off by a puff of smoke and two ninjas standing right in front of him.
"Oi, Naruto, how'd your training go?" the silver-haired Jounin asked curiostly. "Fine, just fine." Naruto replied glaring at Sasuke seeing that he was much stronger.
"You guys ready?" Sasuke asked in his 'cool' tone.
"Yep!" Sakura and Naruto chorused together.
"Then let's go win us another rank." Sasuke said leading his team into the room. (That remark probably sounded pretty stupid, but I couldn't think of anything else.)
When the three genins entered the room, it looked just like last time. All of these weird looking people staring at them, but since they had been here last time, they had recognized some friendly faces and some not so friendly ones. The sound group that was there last time was still there, Gaara and his group were also there, but they didn't look as ruthless as last time, Shikamaru's group was there, as well as Kiba's and Neji's. There was only one group of Konoha rookies. They eyed the other nine former rookies and whispered to each other about them.
"Oi, Naruto," Shikamaru and Kiba said at practically the same time. With the two came there teams, Shikamaru's, which consisted of Shikamaru, Ino, and Chouji, and Kiba's, which had Kiba, Shino, and Hinata. The nine genins that were rookies last year, came together in a group and began multiple conversations. Ino and Sakura were fighting over Sasuke, like always, and Naruto, Kiba, Shikamaru and Chouji were just talking. Hinata stood there staring at Naruto. When Naruto noticed this, he gave her a wave and then continued to talk more. Hinata just stood there, still staring at Naruto, and watching him talk away.
"This is so troublesome." Hinata heard Shikamaru complain. "So many people, this gets annoying."
"Oi, Naruto, what new moves did you learn when you were training?" Kiba asked curiostly, this got Shikamaru's attention too.
"Oh nothing, just some jutsus and other stuff." Naruto lied.
"Well, you probably learned more than me, I only learned another shadow attack." Shikamaru said.
"Well, whatever you learned, I'm not going to lose to you this time, Naruto," Kiba stated as Akamaru gave a bark of approval. "You're not the only one who learned a few new things." Kiba told him.
Then, Neji's team came over. Sakura saw and waved a 'hi' to Lee. Lee, taking this as an invitation, went to ask Sakura on another date. Neji just stood there staring at Naruto. Naruto noticed this and asked, "What?"
"Oh nothing, I just wanted to wish you luck before the tournament, and this time , you won't win, got it?" Neji said with a slight smile.
"mmm." Naruto 'said' with a nod of approval. Tenten just kind of stared at Sasuke. 'It's that cute guy.' She said to herself 'I think I'll go have a talk with him' she thought, so she left for Sasuke. Neji just stared endlessly at Naruto.
Hinata now became I little bit frightened, but still stayed still. Shikamaru and Kiba were busy talking to each other behind Naruto, "Hey, Shikamaru, what do you think Naruto's learned with that guy?"
"Dunno. He'll probably show us later."
"Yeah, you pro-"
"OI! EVERYONE, BE QUIET." A voice yelled over the entire group of shinobis. Everyone turned around to see a tall shinobi with a scar that went across his face. "I am Morino Ibiki. I am in charge of the first part of the Chuunin Exams and I will surely make it the last time you ever attend." The Jounin announced.
"He said the same thing last time." Shikamaru whispered.
"Now, you will all be takne to one room. You will be blindfolded and you must stay in the center of the room. If you more from that spot, you fail. You must somehow use your skills to find out what's in front of you. If you correctly get the item in front of you, then you will pass this part of the exam. Oh yeah, and you only have five minutes to figure out what the item is. If you fail, your whole team fails. And one more thing, your not allowed to use a Bunshin to see it. Got it?" Ibiki stated just as the examiners arrived. "Good. Now the following people follow the first examiner and so on." The mental torture expert ordered as he began calling out names. (Basically, the examiners stand in a line and when one Genin is called, that genin goes with the first examiner in line and so on.)
This part of the first part of the Chuunin exam was easy for most of the Konoha Genins. Gaara just used his third eye. Kankuro turned his doll. Temari uhhhh...ummm Temari...I am not sure what she does but she passes that part. Shikamaru used his shadow mimic to take control of the examiner and have him hold out the item for Shikamaru. Ino used her body taking technique to find out. He did that technique that turns him into a big ball and felt the item with his tummy. Kiba used his nose (He wasn't allowed to use Akamaru). Shino used his bugs. Hinata and Neji both used byankugan. Lee used his super speed to take off his cloth and put it back on without the examiner noticing (Lee got much faster). The cloth on Tenten was short so tenten was able to see above her and used mirrors. Sasuke used his Sharingan. Sakura used genjutsu to make it look like she still had her cloth on even though she didn't (she also learned some taijutsu). And Naruto used his Arronkogan.
In the end, all except for 29 teams, which included 7 from Konoha (including Gaara's team) 5 from the village of sound, 4 from the village of Grass, 4 from the village of waterfall, and 9 from the village of mist, failed. (Note: There were about 61 teams to begin with.)
"Now," a new voice appeared before the genin, "For test two."