Summary- Shall be known as the plot continues
Disclaimer- I don't own naruto that is all
note- I know I haven't updated lately and I'm sorry for that haha. It's just that I've been kinda budy as well. Not to mention I had sort of a writers block…more like a decision. I couldn't decide whether to skip to the chuunin exams or not…So I just decided and wala!
Chapter 22: The Chuunin Exams
It was 4:00 am as it was now a week before the Chuunin Exams. Now the jounin instructors had the ability to say if their teams are able or not to participate in the upcoming exam.
"As you jounins know, we have a Chuunin exam coming up, if you believe your genin are up for it walk up and say your team's names." Sarutobi said.
"My team consisting of Haruno Sakura, Inuzuka Kiba, and Uchiha Sasuke are ready to take the Chuunin exam." Kakashi said.
"My team consisting of Uzumaki Naruto, Hyuuga Hinata, and Tenten are ready to take the Chuunin Exam." Kurenai said.
"My teams ready for it…" Asuma said as he smoked his cigar.
"My team is burning with youthfulness as they shall burn pass all the other teams! FOR I AM THE BLUE BEAST OF KONOHA!" Gai said diligently.
All the other instructors had their sweat drops as they saw Gai's words and how 'powerful' they were. As they moved on other instructors had trusted the strength of their own genins as they signed them up for the exam.
at the bridge—
"Hey Hinata-chan…Hey Tenten-chan…" Naruto yawned "Wait…what's Haku doing here to now?"
"Hell Naruto…how are you today?" Haku said.
"Haku said that the Hokage decided he could be on our team for the time being until the chuunin exams Naruto-kun." Hinata said.
"Really? Now that's going to be awesome!" Naruto yelled.
"I wonder what's taking Kurenai-sensei so long to arrive, she's usually not late…" Tenten said.
As if on cue, Kurenai had made her grand entrance in front of them.
"Ughh…I think I'm catching the Kakashi virus…" Kurenai muttered to herself before speaking up. "Ok group, I believe we are ready for the upcoming Chuunin Exams next week as of now. I have signed each one of you up as a team, so go to the coliseum in 1 week from now together…wait Haku, why are you here?"
"I'm supposed to be an add-on to this team by request by the Hokage-sama. He said that since I am most comfortable alongside this team because of the incident with Zabuza…" Haku said.
"Ah I see…Ok, from now on we are just going to practice on teamwork alright? In the chuunin exams, that is going to be of very importance. So report here tomorrow morning, but as of now…your day is free. Have fun." Kurenai said before leaving.
"Wait…I forgot to ask if she talked about the Sasuke thingy to the Hokage…" Naruto whined.
"You can always do that some other time Naruto-kun" Tenten said.
"Ok, Let's go to Ichikaru!" Naruto said as he led the way there. As he went he heard the words from another genin team, Team 7.
"Hey! Face paint boy! Hand back the kid now!" Kiba said as he went back to charging at a boy before getting hit back. Suddenly a rock hit the face paint boy as he noticed wonder boy.
"Hey! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!"
"You're picking on people from Konoha…and apparently your from sand" Sasuke said all coolly.
Naruto then saw this before telling his friends that he was going there for a moment as he ran up to them.
"Hey Kankuro! Hey Temari!" Naruto said out loud running towards them. "How come you have a kid in your hands Kankuro…? Hey Gaara, you going to come down from hiding yet?"
"Hello Naruto…" Gaara appearing as sand passed by.
Sasuke then stood at awe as Gaara just appeared without his own noticing. What the hell…how did he get past me? And that other kid, how did he know that he was there when even I did…I must know…
"Oh sorry…" Kankuro said as he dropped the kid as he ran away back home. "He was pissing me off…"
"That's alright anyways, how are you doing?" Naruto said.
"Hey, hey! Naruto, how do you know these people?" Sakura said. "They aren't allowed in here anyway saying that they are from sand."
"Didn't you know about the Chuunin exams?" Temari said.
"Yeah, the exams are coming up allowing entrance for other nations and in Konoha is where the exams are going to be taken this year." Naruto said. "If you don't mind after I answered you that you leave so I can talk to the sand people to myself please?"
Sakura and Kiba left as of knowing that it was ok for them to go now that the kid wasn't in danger anymore and that they knew the reason why the sand team was there as they went to their own meeting. Sasuke however stayed there as he landed on the ground.
"What are you doing dobe, and how the hell do you know these people?" Sasuke yelled at Naruto.
"For on thing, I am not a dobe because I was dead-last. You know that I was only because I had not taken any classes before entering so you first must see how strong I am before I can truly have that title." Naruto said. "And for how I know them…lets just say they are friends."
"Fine…" Sasuke said as he hmphed and left to his meeting area.
"Hey Gaara, let me show you my own team as well." Naruto said as he called over to his team which were still waiting for him since they were originally planning to go eat at Ichikarus. "This is Haku, Tenten-chan, Hinata-chan…This is Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari. Gaara too has a demon within him as well!"
The sand trio was at first surprised that Naruto had just told them that Gaara had a demon within himself, but had later sighed seeing that Naruto had probably already told them about his own demon sealed within himself.
"Yes, and I owe it to Naruto that he helped fortify my seal as well, Shukaku has been more…silent lately. And more…friendly as well…I have finally been able to get some sleep." Gaara said.
"That's great!" Naruto said happily.
"Ah, so you were the person Naruto had told me about when he was with me…" Haku said in understanding.
"Hey Gaara, I think we should go get a hotel now." Temari said.
"Oh I guess that's too bad…we were wishing to have talked to you more.." Hinata said.
"Yeah…maybe we can talk a little more next time!" Tenten said.
"Yes, for next time will be the chuunin exams…" Gaara said.
"Yeah, see you at the chuunin exams." Naruto said as his team walked to Ichikaru to finally start eating.
a week later—
"Naruto-kun…do you really think we are going to pass this?" Hinata said.
"Of course we are Hinata-chan…have more confidence in yourself. If you don't the chances you have will slim to 0!" Naruto said.
"Yeah Hinata, I agree to what Naruto-kun said." Tenten said. "If you don't mind though, lets hurry up and go in before we can't register for the first exam anymore."
"Tenten-chans right Hinata-chan, let's go." Naruto said as they walked through the doors only to see a scene of where Sasuke was bragging about seeing the genjutsu behind the door 301 revealing it is door 201. Then they left for room 301 as the green guy in the spandex ran after them.
"Wow…now that was a weird sight to have scene…" Naruto said sweat dropping.
"Yeah…truly weird indeed." Tenten said.
"But Sasuke really didn't need to brag about it…he just turned on his stupid Sharingan and found out…making such a big deal out of it…" Naruto said.
"Ano…we better hurry…only 10 minutes until no more can enter…" Hinata said.
"Really! Oh crap!" Naruto said as they ran through missing Sasuke's duel running right pass them which really pissed Sasuke off as they went to the exam room.
Inside the test room, the only people who were actually talking now where probably the genin 12. Everyone else in the room were probably having a nervous breakdown due to the fact of the pressure of taking such an exam that only comes two times a year.
"Give me information on Uzumaki Naruto, Gaara…and Rock Lee" Sasuke said.
"Uzumaki Naruto…Ninjutsu: literally sucks… Genjutsu: same as ninjutsu Taijutsu: powerful. 57 D rank 34 c ranks…oh my what's this…1 A rank!
Gaara of sand…not much information on him sorry…just know that every mission he's been on he always returned unscathed.
Rock Lee…Taijutsu specialist…24 D rank missions 16 C ranks" Man with glasses says.
"How the hell did Naruto's team get an S rank mission…damnit! That should have been me receiving it!" Sasuke said. Damn stupid Dobe…him and his stupid luckiness…I'm an Uchiha…I have to kill my brother! If I'm not given the best missions…how can I kill my brother!
"Shut all you genin and take a seat NOW! I am instructor Morino Ibiki and I'm going to be the examiner for the first test. Now be seated as I tell the rules. In this test for every time you get caught cheating you will be deducted of 2 points. You have 10 points in total, 1 point for every correctly answered question on the test. If one of you are to fail then all of your teammates fail along with you. Now START!" Ibiki said.
"What the hell…This can't be good…" Naruto thought…" How the hell do I do these problems…wait, I remember now! These were inside the textbooks of some of the libraries in Sand and Rain!"
Naruto then started writing like crazy for the next moments and finished in 10 minutes all 9 questions. The last question though said wait until the last minutes of the test. Naruto then got bored and took a nap.
"BYAKUGAN!" Hinata muttered to herself as she started copying each and every answer down from what Naruto had written. She was surprised that he wrote so quickly and didn't look like he cheated so she took trust into him and copied.
"hmmm…" Tenten said as she readjusted her invisible wire to the mirrors that was created by Haku.
Haku…He just was just seeing the answers from the mirrors he made since he had direct link. And since he could basically teleport from each place he moved back and forth looking at answers and moving back as if he never moved in the first place.
Each and every person had their own way of cheating though…
"Team 29! FAILED" Ibiki said. "teams 34, 23, 14, 84, 32! FAILED!"
Chuunins were all thinking the same thing when they saw Ibiki do this. Damn…how does he catch all of them…it's freaky how he does this…
As it was nearing the last 5 minutes of the class Ibiki had finally decided it was a good time to give away the last question.
"Ok, I am now giving you your last questions. Now, it is a choice between if you would want to go on or not." Ibiki said before getting interrupted by Kiba.
"Why the hell would we not want to go on!" Kiba yelled as some other ninjas agreed as well.
"That is because of the second rule…if you fail to answer this, you will never be able to take the chuunin exams again." Ibiki said, as soon as said most of the ninjas got frightened and started to fail themselves as well.
"Ok…now that we see some are confident but I still think all of you FAIL!" Ibiki roared at the people as Naruto finally woke up.
"Hmmm…Is Anko here yet for the next part of the exam?" Naruto yawned as Ibiki sweat dropped. Suddenly a window had crashed as Anko had finally made her appearance.
"36 teams? That's a good number Ibiki…but there is no time for celebrating as you can't. Next is me as your examiner, I'm Anko and FOLLOW ME!" Anko yelled.
Everyone then followed Anko all the way to the forest of death as there was their next exam. Some more 4 teams had gotten scared off and ran off from the view of the huge forest, but the rest had stayed.
"Ok people, now you will need to sign all of these forms as you will now see. These are to guarantee that if you die within this forest that we will not be the cause of it." Anko said. Two more teams got scarred off of this and ran leaving 30 more teams. Now they were ready to start the second exam.
meanwhile at the 1st exam—
"…"Ibiki said. "I thought I had just failed them…"
"you can't have all you want hahaha" one chuunin said.
"Be quiet you! Why the hell did Anko just appear and take them away if I said they failed!" Ibiki said.
"Because Naruto, Sarutobi, and Anko planned as that way for it to be funny. I heard it because I guard the door. As soon as Naruto said something about Anko, she was supposed to charge in and take the rest of them away before you had any say…and I believe it worked pretty well too." The chuunin then laughed.
Author notes- I finally finished and updated. Well, I decided to just fast forward to the chuunin exams. I just love humor within some fics. Sorry for not updating sooner! But I'll update someday!
