DISClAIMER: I don't own Naruto or any of the character names you recognize in this story. I do own: Gen, Riko, and Kyo. --------
Another lazy day for Team 7. Kakashi had just given them the day off.
"Anyone want to train?" Naruto suggested loudly.
Sasuke rolled his eyes at the blond nin, and on seeing this, Sakura said, "Naruto, shut up."
And so, Naruto did. Anything for Sakura-chan.
The team walked through Konoha. Sasuke left Naruto and Sakura to go do 'something'. Then Konohamaru came in time to see Sakura beat up Naruto, and he insulted her vicously. All of this lead to Konohamaru running smack into a bigger nin that wasn't from Konoha.
"Itai. Watch where you're going, brat," he snarled, picking Konohamaru up by the shirt.
"Gomen nasai," Sakura said, coming to the rescue. "We were just playing around..."
"Kankuro, what are you doing!" a blond girl asked, coming up. "Let go, before the boss gets mad."
"He's not here now, so let's have a little fun, Temari,"
Suddenly, a shuriken whizzed past Naruto's face and cut the clothing that the older boy, Kankuro, was holding Konohamaru by just as a rock smacked into Kankuro's hand.
Moegi and Udon ran to help their fallen leader as everyone looked first to the direction of the shuriken and saw a boy with light brown hair and eyes exactly the same shade, and then to the direction of the rock to see Sasuke in a tree, tossing and catching another stone. Then he closed his fist on the rock and when he opened his hand, nothing was left but powder.
Sakura stared, love struck, at her crush in the tree, Temari found herself thinking what a handsome guy he was, and even Moegi joined in the staring.
Naruto was faintly annoyed with Sasuke, so he looked back at the other boy. But he and the two girls that were with him had already approached.
"Who are you?" Naruto asaked the three.
"Kyo Mogame," said the boy.
A girl with black hair and dark blue eyes answered, "Riko Kumagai."
"Gen Haibuki," finished the other girl. She had long, wavy red hair and black eyes.
"I'll take care of all of you," Kankuro muttered, taking the bandaged bundle off his back and setting it down.
"You're going to use Karasu?" Temari asked.
"Kankuro," snapped a low voice. "Stop it. You're an emberassment to our village. I'll kill you."
Everyone on the ground and Sasuke, still in the tree, gasped in surprise and looked up to another branch of the same tree to see a boy, the same age as Sakura and Sasuke and the others except for Temari and Kankuro, standing upside down, his arms crossed.
"Ga-Gaara," Kankuro stammered.
'That's Kakashi-level sneakiness,' Sasuke thought.
Riko looked at the boy, and blinked. 'Wow,' she thought. 'That's not something any genin could do. He got there without anyone noticing.'
"Hai," Kankuro said, putting the bundle Temari had called Karasu on his back again.
"Gomen," the boy said. In a whirl of sand, he disappeared from the branch and landed on the ground in front of Kankuro and Temari. "My apologies to you guys."
Sasuke jumped down from the tree. "What's your name?" he asked.
Temari turned around. "Me?" she asked hopefully.
"No, the boy with the gourd."
The boy turned around. "Sabaku no Gaara," he said. "I'm also interested in you. What's your name?"
"Uchiha Sasuke," Sasuke answered.
"Hey, why are you here?" Sakura demanded, stepping forward.
"You mean you don't know?" Temari asked. "Chuunin selection exam."
"What is that?" Naruto asked.
"Nii-chan, if you pass that exam you get to go from genin to chuunin," Konohamaru told him.
"Really? Maybe I should take it too!"
Gaara smirked and turned away again. Then he jumped up and took off. His siblings followed.
Team 7 turned to look at the other team of genin; Gen, Kyo and Riko.
Riko was still looking off in the direction Gaara had gone, and Gen was glaring furiously that way.
"I hate suna nin," she muttered.
"So are you three here for the chuunin exams too?" asked Sakura.
"Hai," Kyo said. 'She's really pretty,' he thought about Sakura.
"You three are from the leaf village, ka?" Naruto muttered.
"Hai," Kyo said again. "Team Eleven."
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