Author: I'm sorry that I did not update yesterday or the day b4 or the day b4...I was thinking of wat to rite and I was kinda stumped . So I went to eat thai food wit my fam and it was good then I had a smoothie yummy! Neways I also was watching rotk (yes it does have that bastard in it grrr!) and I was really pissed off the Lakers lost to the damn Pistons booooooooooooooo! Pistons suck grrr (Lakers should have won!) and if ur wonderin I liked the Lakers before they wom recently so I don't just go 4 them bcuz every1 likes them. Then after every thing I was tired so I watched underworld then read Naruto mangas on the comp till 5 in the morning! So im bak today wit chap 12! Yay...maybe give me more reviews hahahahahhah they keep me motivated! Was chap 11 really that bad?

Disclaimer: I love iruka ne ways I don't love or own Naruto! Haha I wish I owned Iruka though! (wishful expression)

IMPORTANT NOTE: This fanfiction will NOT follow the official manga storyline by Masashi Kishimoto! Though it does contain som information from the manga.

Chapter 12

Kankuro sniffed the air; it was almost daylight and their leader should be arriving soon. He had found out some interesting information while scouting. He had also located a few people that would no doubt be in the Chunin exam, which was one of the reasons they were here.

Kankuro had seen many Anbu in the village and they seemed to have potential but he knew they were nothing compared to Gaara. Gaara was...there were no other words for it...the best. No one could touch Gaara because of the sand that protected him; he also had some elite Jutsu, like the sand coffin, which quickly took out enemies.

Gaara was also a monster...Kankuro knew it would sound weird if he told anyone that, but it was completely true. Gaara was a monster. Gaara had transformed into his demon form once when Kankuro was there and he still had nightmares about that time.

Temari nudged Kankuro out of his musing and then signaled that Gaara was coming. Kankuro snapped to attention as Gaara walked into the clearing. Gaara nodded to them and Temari stepped up to give her observations. She had seen nothing out of the ordinary, just a lot of villagers and a mixture of Genin and Chunin and an occasional Jonin.

When Temari stopped Kankuro knew it was his turn. "I saw a lot of Genin and Chunin, I also saw some Anbu and I think I spotted the mirror ninja, Kakashi," he said. Gaara merely blinked but Kankuro noted that he didn't expect that.

"I also saw nothing out of the ordinary, this village has potential but if could easily be crushed." Gaara tightened a fist and Kankuro straightened even more. Gaara got restless when he wasn't able to kill someone for a few days and it had been almost a week since Gaara had gotten a kill. "You guys go find shelter I have something I need to take care of first." With that Gaara disappeared back into the forest. Kankuro looked in that direction for a while, pitying the person that got in Gaara's way this morning.

Gaara started a lap around the city, making notes of the village defenses. He made sure to memorize the weakness and the potential breaching points. He was itching for a fight so he didn't bother to stay well hidden.

Just when he was about to give up on the village sentinels he found himself surrounded. So...he thought, I though I felt something, these ninjas will be fun to kill. There were four of them surrounding him and they all looked quite unremarkable. Gaara sighed. He had hoped that Kakashi might have shown up, these lesser ninjas would just have to do.

Gaara smiled and crossed his arms, looking bored and completely relaxed. The other nins stopped coming and the one directly in front of him started to question him.

"Who are you and what is your business in the hidden leaf village?" the nin waited for an answer and when he didn't receive one he took a step closer. "If you don't answer the questions then we will be forced to capture you." Gaara made no answer and the guard nodded to the others, who by the sound of it were drawing weapons.

"Put away your weapons if you want to live," Gaara offered, knowing they wouldn't accept it. He heard one of the nins behind him snicker, and that made him smirk. This was going to be fun.

Finally one of the nins threw a shuriken at him and the sand immediately created a shield blocking the shuriken from reaching Gaara. Then two others kicked at the same time from both sides. The sand blocked them. The ninja in front of him was worried now and Gaara was annoyed that this was all that there was to challenge him.

Oh well, he thought and then started a seal shouting "Sand shurikens!" The shurikens whooshed out from all sides and struck their targets with satisfying thunks. One of the ninjas fell, blood gurgling from a shuriken embedded in his throat.

The other three were clutching minor wounds and circling him again. One of them started seal and then shouted "Fireball Jutsu!" the fireball came speeding towards him but the sand easily blocked it.

"You guys are really weak...I think I'll KILL you now." With that Gaara send three tendrils of sand snaking towards each of the remaining ninjas. One of them tried to run but the sand twisted around his ankles, tripping him. The sand then quickly engulfed then, but before it had completely encased them all one managed to scream in panic. Gaara was disappointed; was this all the leaf had to offer?

"Soon you will have blood again mother...even though they are weak at least it's blood..." Gaara held up his hand and then quickly closed his fist. One of the many slits in the sandy coffins spurted out blood in great showers. The blood rained on Gaara and he smiled again. He loved the blood...It was so nice to kill people; it was the reason that he liked to live so well. He couldn't wait till he could meet some better competition, which was why he was here in the first place; it was time for the Chunin exams.

Iruka was standing at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the four great faces of the village. The first, second, and fourth Hokages were dead, but the third one still lived. He was explaining how each had had an impact on the village.

The first and the second had founded the village and helped it become was it was currently, the fourth...had defeated the nine tails fox demon. Iruka was solemn when he talked about this, since it was the nine tails that had murdered his family. The kids were silent during this part because most of them, well all of them knew and felt sorry for their sensei because a lot of them had also lost family members to the demon.

Iruka tried to lighten the mood by saying "The past and former Hokages have lived to protect this village and they love and have loved everyone in it. As an example look at the fourth, who died after defeating the fox demon. He lived to protect the village and he died protecting it until he last breath. One day perhaps one of you will be Hokage. One of his students raised her hand.

"Yes, what is it?" Iruka asked the little girl.

"Will you be the next Hokage?" she looked up at him shyly. "You're a great teacher Iruka-sensei!"

Iruka blinked and then laughed, "No I don't think that I will be the next Hokage, but you never know...." Iruka trailed off and smiled again.

"I'm going to be the Hokage one day, right Iruka-sensei?" Naruto dropped out of a tree and landed near Iruka. He was closely followed by Sasuke, who looked bored as usual but when he saw Iruka looking at him his eyes betrayed him by flicking a quick glance at Naruto.

Iruka smiled a small smile and then turned to his class again, but he did catch Sasuke's frown out of the corner of his eye. "These are my former students, Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke." He looked back at Naruto and Sasuke, Naruto was beaming at the children and Sasuke was still frowning at Iruka.

Iruka was dismayed when he saw a couple of his girl students were eyeing Sasuke and whispering to each other. The Konohamaru, the current Hokage's grandson, spoke up. "Naruto you won't be Hokage, I will even though you are out leader!"

Naruto walked over to Konohamaru and whacked him on the back of the head. Konohamaru landed on his face with a muffled yelp. Sasuke, who had followed Naruto, frowned and rolled his eyes.

"I was just kidding leader no need to get angry!" The boy on the ground got up unsteadily and then Naruto grabbed his shoulders and pulled him the rest of the way up. He beamed down at the kid.

"One day I will become the Hokage, and then everyone will have to recognize me!" He raised a fist in the air and then looked around. Everyone was staring at him, he lowered his fist.

The girl that had asked Iruka if he was going to be the next Hokage giggled. "You're too silly to be Hokage!"

So all the Hokage's have to be serious old guys?" Naruto was glaring daggers at the little girl who was now hiding behind Iruka.

"Naruto honestly there's no need to beat up my students because you can't fight anything else, and besides the fourth wasn't old," Iruka was only slightly annoyed by his former students behavior, he was used to it by now and anyways Naruto was special to him, like a little brother that always got in trouble.

Naruto was looking bummed and Iruka felt bad that he had said that. Iruka smiled then when he got an idea. "How about some ramen?" Iruka was grinning now because he could see Naruto's look of delight. "My treat, you come too Sasuke-kun, we need to talk."

"Okay schools out for today don't forget your homework!" Iruka yelled out the last because most of the students had rushed off already, He turned to Naruto and Sasuke grinning again. "Okay let's go!" Naruto took the lead and Sasuke followed him, Iruka fell into place beside Sasuke.

He glanced over at the boy who was watching Naruto with a foreign expression on his face...It was an expression of...Iruka couldn't really say. When they reached the ramen shop Naruto sat down and Sasuke immediately took the seat next to him. Iruka say on the other side of Naruto and then ordered ramen for all of them. They spent the next few hours eating ramen and talking, they even got Sasuke to join the conversation after Naruto glared at the shop owner's daughter until she left.