Hi folks here's chapter 2: The Chuunin exam! (Thx for the Reviews!)

The Chuunin exam.

Just five minutes to go till the first round of the Chuunin exam was over. Ino already collected the answers 30 minutes ago with her Shintenshin. She looked at Morino Ibiki, he was reading a note, he looked very serious. Suddenly she had to think of Shikamaru. He had the same serious look on his face when he was playing Shougi.

Ino was still a bit surprised about his behavior. He could have made a complete idiot of her if he wanted to, but instead of doing that he released his Kagemane and let her go. All he did was smile when she asked why he did that. After asking it 50 times she had given up, he wouldn't tell her no matter how much she asked. 'Why did you do that Shikamaru?' she thought.
She really had no idea. She had thought of different reasons, like that he was scared of that she would send her father to him if he hurt her, or that he didn't have any Chakra left. But none of these reasons seemed really logic. Maybe she had to think of something total different. 'Totally different eh?' she started to think very hard. 'Maybe his clan is against hurting females or to get angry at them, this would explain why Shikato was married to such a 'troublesome' woman. 'But when Ino thought again of that reason she knew it couldn't be 'the reason', if it was he could never have beaten Kin.

'Come on Ino, something totally different.' Suddenly something popped into her mind. 'Maybe he fancies me.' Could that be it? That he fancied her? 'Why on earth would he fancy me, all I do is boss him around and he seems really annoyed by me.'

'Nah, that's not the reason.' Ino continued thinking.

"Everyone here listen very careful I'm going to explain the tenth question." said Morino Ibiki.

Ino forgot about the whole Shikamaru thing and listened to Morini Ibiki.

"Ok, then everyone here," he took a pause to look around "passes."

Ino could hear surprised voices. 'Quite shocking eh?' she thought.

There was a sound of breaking glass and Anko entered the room, the same way she did one and a half year ago.'

"Next the second round of the Chuunin exam!" she said with a huge smile.

The forest of death looked as scary as ever when they entered it.

Ino, Kiba and Shino traveled quickly through the trees, aware of all the dangers lying ahead of them. Ino was quite confident that she wouldn't be in any kind of danger with her teammates. Kiba and Shino were excellent Shinobi. She was happy she could join them because Hinata didn't want to participate and her original team had one person to less to participate.

"We'd better hurry and collect the scroll of Heaven." said Kiba. "If there are people like the sand-nins from our last exam we'd better be very careful, the best way is to think of a strategy and set a trap."

Ino started thinking of a good trap. 'Situation: we're in a forest where everyone is each other's enemy. Landscape: mainly forest. The best way to set a traps to use bait. So, what if we all make a replication of ourselves and set a trap?'

"Kiba, Shino I have an idea." said I.

Kiba looked a bit surprised. "Probably because in the academy I always acted like a dumb blond-haired girl." she thought. But things had changed since she became the teammate of Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Chouji. She really had learned a lot from them.

"So what's your idea?" he asked. You could hear by the way he spoke that he didn't expect much of me.

"Well, most of the other Shinobi go searching for others, so we'd better decide to stayhere and see them coming, next we set a trap."

"Not bad." said Shino.

"For the trap we use replication, we let them look exhausted and wounded so it's like we have been attacked, next we let them sit on the ground, resting, while we hide in the trees so we can attack when they are in the right position."

"Not bad at all." said Kiba who looked even more surprised after I told the plan.

"Well let's go and make the trap." I said.

I was right, within a few hours some Shinobi's came looking for the scroll they needed and attacked our replications. We could easily attack them and in no time we had defeated them and took their scroll, which luckily was the scroll of Heaven. After we had collected our scroll we hurried to the building in the center of the forest. Within an half hour we arrived.

We were the first ones to arrive. 'I hope Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto are alright.' It would really be a pity if Sasuke didn't pass the second round because then he could not see how much she had improved.

Luckily for me they arrived an hour after we had arrived. When they walked towards us I gave Sakura a big sarcastic smile. I could see the fury in her eyes which made my smile even bigger. Sakura didn't know what to say back and walked away from me.

"We have to spend four more days here." Kiba said with a bored look on his face.

"We'd better prepare for the matches that are coming." said Shino.

"Yeah." I replied. 'You all are going to be astonished about how much I've improved!' Ino thought happily. 'Especially you, Sasuke-kun!'