Chapter 5: Chunin Exams(Part-1)
It has been three months since the Wave mission, ever since then Naruto has training with his Godfather in combining all of his fightung styles and so far he has succeeded in combining all of his taijutsu styles.
In those three months he has also went on various missions with his Godfather and other teams but the most memorable missions were; the one which he had to do in the hidden Waterfall village, where he met the jinchurikki of Chomei, the seven tails and the other was in the land of snow, which is now known as the land of spring, during this mission he had to escort the princess of land of snow, where he fought her uncle and defeated him.
Right now we found Naruto in the training ground of his compound, with about a thousand clones working on his kenjutsu style while he was training with his sharingan. One day when he was training, Naruto found out that he could use the sharingan, mangeykyō sharingan, rinnegan and rinne-sharingan separately and ever since then he had been training his eyes separately while also working on his other abilities.
He was training when he sensed the chakra of his perverted Godfather entering the training ground. He deactivated his sharingan and looked at his pervert of a sensei and saw that he had a form in his hands.
"You are late Ero-sennin."
At this Jiraiya just sighed no matter how much told Naruto to stop calling him that, he just wouldn't listen. "Well brat I'm late because I have nominated you in the chunin exams, now take this form and fill it and be sure to present at the academy in a week."
Naruto took the form and filled it before he went out to meet some of his friends.
While Naruto was walking around the village, he noticed that a square box was following him, and he instantly knew who it was, "Rocks are not of square shape, Konohamaru."
Suddenly the square rock exploded and coughing could be heard, "Damn too much gun powder," said a child. When the smoke cleared three childern could be seen, "Hey nii-chan."
"Hello Konohamaru."
"Nii-chan will you play ninja with us!" the chibi asked, Naruto was about to reply when he heard an annoying voice.
"A ninja playing ninja, how dumb is that." Sakura said at this the three chibi instantly got angry.
"Who asked you flat-chest!" Konohamoru yelled, Naruto instantly laughed at that but stopped when he saw a dark malicious aura surrounding her.
"Uh Konohamoru."
"Yes nii-chan?"
"I think you should run." Naruto replied while pointing toward Sakura. He looked in the direction in which Naruto was pointing and gulped. Seeing her like this, the three chibi had only one thought running through their minds, 'Oh shit', and ran for their lives with a screeching howler monkey hot on their tails.
Naruto just laughed as he watched Sakura chase Konohamaru. Obviously Sakura being a fan girl had a diet going on to keep her figure so she barely could keep up with an 8 year old.
Konohamaru and his friends were still running, when they made a sharp turn and Konohamaru crashed into another shinobi that was around the corner.
"Damn it brat that hurt." the shinobi said and picked up Konohamaru by the collar getting ready to apply some punishment. Naruto heard the commotion and went to investigate.
He arrived and saw two strange shinobi with sand forehead protector. The one holding Konohamaru wore a black, baggy, full body suit with a red and yellow circle on the front. He also wears a black hood which covered his head completely, and had cat-like ears and his forehead protector on his forehead. He also a bundle in his back with white bandages surrounding it completely.
The other was a Kunoichi whose outfit consisted of a single light purple-colored, off-the-shoulders garment that extended to halfway down her thighs, with a scarlet sash tied around her waist. In addition to incorporating fishnet worn over her shoulders and legs, specifically on her right calf and her left thigh, she also wore her black forehead protector around her neck
"Leave the kid alone Kankuro." the kunoichi in the back said.
"I've got to teach him some respect Temari." Kankuro replied the female shinobi.
"Fine, fine but if you get in trouble I'm not helping." Temari replied and Kankuro nodded getting ready to smash his fist into Konohamaru. Sakura just watched scared of them until Naruto arrived at the scene.
"Hey clown, put Konohamaru down." Naruto said.
"Who are you calling clown?" Kankuro asked.
"You. You are wearing a full body cat suit with makeup." Naruto replied.
"It's not makeup, it's was paint." Kankuro said getting pissed off.
"Whatever you say, just put the kid down." Naruto said getting ready to spring into action if need be.
"I'm teaching him some manners." Kankuro said as he made a fist and prepared to punch Konohamaru. Naruto vanished in an instant. To any untrained eyes he was just a blur.
One second later Naruto had Temari with a kunai at her throat and Kankuro with his sword at his throat.
"Now, how about you put him down… gently." Naruto said in a cold voice and a small blood drop fell from Kankuro's neck. Kankuro and Temari were sweating, they didn't see him move, he was just a blur.
Inside Naruto, Shukaku, who was sleeping up until now woke up when he sensed a familiar chakra, 'This chakra...' he then informed Naruto about this, "Naruto, I'm sensing the chakra of my previous host on that tree." to which Naruto nodded and looked at the nearby tree.
"Besides your team mate doesn't seem very happy." Naruto said pointing towards a nearby tree. Suddenly from behind the tree appeared another sand shinobi. He was a little shorter than the average male of his age. He had fair skin and short, spiky, auburn hair which was sometimes depicted as red. He had green eyes and no distinctive pupils, or eyebrows either. He had two very notable traits in his appearance: firstly, he also had tanuki-like black eye rings, having them since his birth. Secondly, he had the kanji for "love" carved on the left side of his forehead.
"G-G-Gaara." Kankuro said in a dry voice clearly fearing the shinobi now identified as Gaara. He made a sand shunshin towards his team just as Naruto retracted kunai and sword and regrouped with Sakura, Sasuke, who had appeared the moment Gaara came down from the tree and the now released Konohamaru.
He managed to get behind Temari and Kankuro… he is good' Gaara thought. "Stop this or I'll kill you." Gaara said and Kankuro took a step back.
"I w-w-was just t-t-teaching them a l-l-lesson." Kankuro shakily said.
"Shut up, you are a disgrace to our village." Gaara said in his usual cold tone, he then looked at Naruto like he was trying to solve a puzzle.
"Mother says you are strong, she says to stay away from you, I'll prove my existence by killing you." Gaara said unleashing KI as the sand was starting to leave his gourd and dance around him. Poor Sakura and the kids were on the ground barely managing to breath from the amount of killer intent, while Sasuke was sweating bullets.
When Gaara refered Shukakau as his mother all of the tailed beasts and Naruto looked at him for a moment before they burst out laughing causing the giant tanuki to grumble before Naruto simply applied his own that overwhelmed Gaara's KI to the point that his team took a step back.
"Naruto, Gaara is acting like a maniac because the seal that was applied on him is a faulty seal which was also affecting me. When father came to talk to me, it was his peaceful aura and chakra that calmed me down but when I informed him about the seal he said that he didn't have enough chakra to fix Gaara's seal and create our clones while also giving you his chakra, so he said that it will be your duty to fix his seal and cure him." Shukaku informed Naruto.
"Don't worry Shukaku, I will help him." He then again turned his attention back to the sand trio.
"I'm guessing you guys are here for the chunin exams."
"Yes we are." the red-head jinchurikki said.
"Alright then but please control your clown over there because he was about to start an international incident by attacking the Hokage's grandson." Naruto said causing both Temari and Kakuro to gulp, they were about to leave when Sasuke talked in his usual high and mighty tone.
"Hey you," he called Gaara, when the red-head looked at the emo brooder, he asked, "What is your name?"
"My name is Gaara. What is yours?" Gaara asked
"My name is Sasuke Uchiha." Sasuke replied arrogantly.
"I'm not asking your name weakling, I was asking his." Gaara said pointing toward Naruto causing Sasuke to seethe internally.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze. I hope to meet you in the Chunin exams there is something that I want to talk to you about." Naruto said before he left with the three children. Gaara and his team stood there for sometime watching Naruto leave before they left as well, leaving a brooder with his howler monkey.
With Naruto
After he left, Naruto told Konohamaru and his friends to go home while stating that he has some business to attend to. He quickly went to the Hokage tower in order to inform him of what just tranpired.
Naruto knocked on the door of the Hokage office, he waited for a few seconds before he opened the door to see his jiji working on some paperwork with his clones.
Hiruzen looked up from his paperwork to see who it was and when he saw that it was Naruto a smile quickly appeared on his elderly face.
"Hello Naruto-kun! What can I do for you?" the old man asked.
"Hello Jiji! I wanted to talk to you about something in private." the blonde jinchurikki replied. The old Hokage got the message and quickly sent his ANBU, that were hiding in the corner, outside and applied the privacy seals.
"So what is it that you wanted to talk to me about!" the old man asked
"I wanted to tell you that something is up with the Suna, they sent an unstable jinchurikki to the Chunin exams."
"How do you know about that Naruto-kun?"
"Well Shukaku informed me about it, as Gaara was his previous host, he also told me that the seal that was holding him back was a faulty seal, which was not only affecting Gaara but was also affecting Shukaku."
The old man took in all the information and ran through all the situations that could happen, he then looked at Naruto before nodding to himself, "Well Naruto-kun I have a mission for you, it is an S-rank mission. Are you up for it!"
While Naruto was initially surprised when he heard that the old man was giving him a mission of such high calliber that still didn't stop him from asking about it. "What is the mission?"
"I want you to find out all you can about what Suna is upto in the chunin exams, while also fixing this Gaara's seal because I think that he has suffered long enough. Can you do it?"
"Sure I accept the mission."
"Good then and Naruto-kun, I don't need to tell you that none of this should be discussed outside of this room." the old man said sternly.
"Yes, I promise that none of this will be discussed outside of this room." Naruto said.
"Good then you can go now if you want or you can help me in the paperwork." to which Naruto simply nodded and helped the oldman for about two hours before he went home.
A week later
A week quickly went by in Naruto's opinion, Naruto had already warned Kurenai, Kakashi, Asuma and Guy about the suna team and told them to tell their students to stay away from that team no matter what happen.
In that week Naruto had completed a lightning jutsu that he had been working on for over three months, he got the idea of that jutsu after hearing about a jutsu that was used in 3rd shinobi war by kumo forces.
But that was then and this was now, so now we found our blonde hero arriving at the academy, when Naruto came inside the academy he found that his pervert of a sensei/Godfather was already waiting for him.
"Ero-sennin what are you doing here?" Naruto asked.
"I'm here to say good luck. Not that you would need it anyway." the toad sage explained.
"Thank you Ero-sennin. I'm going to kick some ass here." Naruto said and Jiraiya laughed at that.
Naruto continued through the academy heading towards the designated room which was room 301 on the third floor. He arrived and noticed a small gathering of gennin teams trying to enter the exam room.
"Genjutsu!" Naruto said to himself. 'It's team 9. They must be trying to downplay their skill.' Naruto mused.
Just as he was about to greet them, team 7 arrived with their noses held high.
"Drop this genjutsu now." Sasuke commanded.
'That idiot' Naruto thought as team 9 and other people that were present around them thought along the same lines. Naruto simply shook his head at the idiocy of Sasuke and greeted the members of team 9.
"Hey guys, how's it going!" he greeted.
"Hello Naruto-kun, it's good to see you my youthful eternal rival." Lee shouted.
"Hi Lee, it's good to see you too." Naruto said
"Hello Naruto-san, how have you been?" Tenten asked.
"I am fine, so Neji how are you?"
"I am fine as well Naruto and now I am stronger than ever and I have been waiting for our rematch." Neji said stoically.
"Well we can have our match after the chunin exams or who knows, we might even get to fight in the chunin exams." Naruto replied to which Neji politely nodded. Naruto still remembered the day he met Team 9 when Guy introduced him to them.
Flashback(6 months ago)
Naruto had been training with Guy when Guy told the blonde jinchurikki that if he want he could meet team 9, naturally Naruto agreed and went with his weird sensei to meet his students.
When they reached training ground 9, Naruto saw three children that were around a year older than him, one them was an exact copy of his eccentric sensei, while the girl looked like a panda, not that he will tell her about that, and a Hyuga who looked like that he had a 10 feet high pole shoved up his ass.
"Good morning my youthful students, today I want all of you to meet youthful Naruto-kun." Guy yelled.
"Hi, guys my name is Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, it's nice to meet you." Naruto introduced himself.
"Hello Naruto-kun, I am Rock Lee, It's nice to meet you in this youthful morning. So tell me how are you?" Lee introduced himself while giving a Guy pose. But all Naruto heard was his name after that he started thinking about the warning that his brother gave him, Kakashi warned him that there was Guy-clone in his team but Naruto didn't hear and now he was regretting it.
When Naruto looked at Lee again and saw that he was excpeting and answer from him, Naruto did something that he will regret for the rest of his life. "Hmm, you say something Lee."
Hearing this both Lee and Guy had the look of horror on their faces while somewhere in Konoha Kakashi had a sudden urge to pump his fist and had a feeling of pride course through him.
"NO NARUTO-KUN's FLAMES OF YOUTH HAS BEEN DAMPENED BY KAKASHI AND HIS HIP COOL ATTITUDE. LEE I THINK THAT YOU HAVE FOUND AN ETERNAL RIVAL NOW, YOU MUST ENSURE THAT NARUTO's FLAMES OF YOUTH COME BACK WITH FULL FORCE." Guy yelled at top of his lungs causing Naruto and his other two students to wince at the loud voice.
"YES GUY-SENSEI. AND IF I CANNOT DO THAT THEN I WILL RUN AROUND KONOHA ON MY HANDS A HUNDRED TIMES." Lee yelled just like his sensei.
"THAT A BOY LEE, LET'S SHOW EVERYONE OUR FLAMES OF YOUTH."
"GUY-SENSEI"
"LEE"
"GUY-SENSEI"
"LEE"
"GUY-SENSEI"
"LEE"
Suddenly a view of beach came behind the now two hugging wierd sensei and student with waves crashing around them. And no matter what Naruto did he couldn't dispel the genjutsu.
"Kurama, Gyuki, mom, dad, guys help please no matter what I do, I can't dispel it." Naruto yelled to his tenants for help while anime tears were streaming down his face.
"I'm sorry Naruto but no matter what we do, we can't dispel it, but don't worry we have faith in you that you will get past it." Minato replied for others before all of them went into hiding and covered their eyes in order to prevent themselves from being mentally scarred.
It was the girl from the team who dispelled the genjutsu by punching the weird duo on the head.
"Please don't worry about them, my name is Tenten and he is Neji Hyuga by the way." the girl introduced both herself and the boy.
"It's nice to meet you both, Neji, Tenten."
After the green spandex wearing sensei recovered he looked at all of them and fix his gaze on both Naruto and Neji, "Neji, I want you to spar with young Naruto-kun here." he said surprising everyone but the two of them nodded none the less.
The two of walked to the middle of the training ground and faced each other and got into their own fighting style. Neji got in the gentle fist stance while Naruto got into the humming bird stance.
"Give up, I'm fated to win here." Neji said smugly.
"How do you know that, the spar hasn't even started yet!" Naruto asked, confusion written over his face
"I know beacuse fate has already declared me the winner." the byakugan holder replied.
"Whatever, we won't know until we try so enough chit-chat let this show get started." as he said that, Naruto's face turned expressionless, surprising everyone because up until now he was smiling while talking to them.
Neji said nothing just silently activated his byakugan and rushed forward inorder to end match. Just as he when reached Naruto and attacked Naruto but Naruto dodged it and kicked Neji in the ribs.
Neji was sent flying , but before he could land Naruto was already upon him, he grabbed Neji's head and brought his knee to hit Neji in the face but he blocked it by crossing his hands in front of his face before forcing Naruto to let go of him by trying to attack him.
This Neji pushed himself at even higher speed but to Naruto it was still slow, he easily dodged it and punched Neji in the stomach, causing all of the air leave his lungs.
"What happened, up until now you going on about fate this, fate that. Now you see it is not fate that you are loosing to me but it is because of my skills and hard work. People like you who blames their suffering on others are nothing but cowards, if you are suffering then do something about it, don't whine." Naruto said
Neji glared and shakily stood up and tried to attack Naruto but Naruto simply dodged it, "Tell me Neji why are you so obssessed with fate!" Naruto asked.
Neji simply reached for his forehead protector and took it off before he answered, "In our family it is fate that the branch house serves the main, we give our lives in servitude to them, I found that out when my father was ordered to die in place of his brother Hiashi-sama, when Hinata-sama was kidnapped by the Kumo ninja and her farher killed him, but Konoha didn't had any proof on the kidnapping so kumo asked for the death of the one who killed their ninja, so my father was the sacrificial pawn, we are even given a seal in so we know our place, you would have no idea what its like to have a seal that define's who you are, oh and by the way you are in my field of devision 8 trigrams 64 palms" Neji yelled
2 Palms"
4 Palms"
8 Palms"
16 Palms"
32 Palms"
8 trigrams 64 Plams"
But to his frustration Naruto easily dodged all sixty-four strikes and even landed some of his own, which caused Neji to fall on the ground, Neji was about say something but stopped himself when he saw Naruto glaring at him coldly.
"So because your father sacrificed himself for his brother and the village you hate the main family and Hinata, have you ever asked about what actually happened or did you just assumed that. Tell me you hate Hinata and her father but have they ever used that cage bird seal against you, and yeah I know all about the Hyuga's cage bird seal after all I'm working on deciphering it, so that when I become the Hokage I can stop this barbaric rule of your clan. As for not knowing about the seal that defines one's self well you are wrong, and it is actually you who have no idea what it is like to be defined by a seal,"
"You should know that I won our little spar because I worked hard to gain this much skills not because I was fated to win, everyone shares a single fate and that is the death and even then it is in our hands about how we die. You should talk to your uncle about what actually happened with your father before making any assumptions. Try to forgive others, don't hate them. There is already enough hate in this world, we don't need anymore than that." Naruto said before he told Guy that he had some work to do and left, leaving all four members of team 9 to their own thoughts.
Flashback End
That day after Neji had gone home, he had asked his uncle about what actually happened that day, and the answer he got was shocking to him, his uncle told him that Neji's father knocked him out from behind and took his place. He even gave Neji a scroll from his father which explained everything.
After that Neji had apologised to both Hiashi and Hinata and had been training with both of them almost everyday. He even helped Hinata in her training.
"Alright then, I'll hold you to it." Neji replied.
"I'll see guys later." and with that he went to the designated classroom in which the test was going to be held.
As soon as Naruto entered the room he was bombarded by the KI from the gennin in the room making him raise an eyebrow before he released his own KI causing everyone to pale and shift nervously in their seats. He looked around the room and saw that there were gennin teams from almost all over the elemental nations but he noticed that the team from Iwa was glaring at him nothing but pure hatred, which he understood was because of what his father did to the Iwa in the third ninja world war. He also noticed that all of the rookies were there including a now bruised Sasuke on whom both Sakura and Ino were fawning but the latter was doing it on a lesser degree.
"Hey guys good to see you all made it." Naruto commented while also trying to ignore Ino and Sakura's arguments concerning what could only be considered the biggest brooder in fire country if not all elemental nations.
"Hey Naruto you are here as well, how come I thought you didn't have a squad that's why you spent all that time with the other teams on missions?" Choji asked while munching his chips.
"Yeah for chunin exams I would need a team but you are forgetting that my Godfather, Jiraiya of the Sannin, is my sensei so as his apprentice I have some privilages." said Naruto stunning the everyone in the hearing range that one of the sannin is his Godfather and he is also Naruto's sensei, but only those who didn't knew about it were stunned.
"Troublesome" was all Shikamaru said.
"Hey isn't it illegal for someone as strong as you are to be allowed in the exams, I mean against someone like you what chance do we have!" Kiba whined loudly.
"It doesn't matter how strong you are Kiba, all that matters is that you give it your all." Naruto said.
"You should probably quieten down, you don't want to paint a target on your back." some guy said. Everyone turned to face him. He wore a pair of circular glasses. He has onyx eyes and ash-grey hair, which he kept in a ponytail that extends to his upper back, with his bangs framing either side of his forehead. He wore a dark purple shirt with a high collar, a white under-shirt, dark purple fingerless gloves with armored plates on the back of the hand, a white cloth waistband worn at an angle, dark purple pants, blue sandals, and a shuriken holster on his right leg.
"You are putting everyone on their toes. Everyone is nervous as it is." the man said as he pointed to the Ame-nin present in the room.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked warily since he was getting a creepy wibe from the guy.
"I'm Kabuto Yakushi, but you are rookies so it figures that you don't know this." Kabuto explained.
"Have you already tried the exam?" Sakura asked.
"Actually this is my seventh try." Kabuto explained sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
"Man, you must be weak." Kiba said.
While this was going on Naruto was already on the egde since the amount of chakra he was sensing from the guy was quite large, which would already put him under suspiscion since there was no way someone with that much chakra could fail the exams six times, not only that but he was sensing that the guy with the glasses also had darker emotions like he was trying to deceive everyone and was eyeing Sasuke with something akeen of interest like he was going to do something to Sasuke.
"These exams aren't easy, maybe I can share some information with you." Kabuto started and took deck o cards from his pockets. "These are chakra cards, they react to my chakra signature and reveal the information. As you can see there are teams from all the countries except Kiri. As expected since Kiri is in civil war there isn't much we can get on them. I can also give you some information on anyone here." Kabuto concluded and Naruto got even suspicious of him. How could Kabuto have information on shinobi from other villages, however he decided keep it to himself for now.
"Give me information on Rock Lee of Konoha, Gaara of Suna and Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze of Konoha." Sasuke said.
"Oh you know there names well that's not hard then lets see. Rock Lee here we go. It says here that he has no skills in nin or genjutsu because he has a disease which has lead to under-developed chakra coils. But his taijutsu is off the charts, his team mates are Neji Hyuuga and Tenten and his sensei is Might Guy, he has done 42 D ranks and 35 C rank missions." Kabuto said before shuffling his cards.
"Ok next is Gaara Sabaku, son of the Kazekage. His is team is composed of his brother Kankuro Sabaku and his sister Temari Sabaku and their jonin sensei is Baki. His skills are all unknown. He completed 10 D-Ranks, 15 C-Ranks and… 1 B-Rank. There is a note that says he returned from all missions without a scratch. Looks like there are some strong people this year." the silver haired ninja informed the Konoha rookies.
This shocked several of the rookies at thought of going on a all those missions and never picking up a single injury.
"And Last but not least, Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, he is the son of the Fourth Hokage, the Yellow Flash, Minato Namikaze and the Red Death, Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze. He is the apprentice of Jiraiya of the Sannin, who also happens to be his Godfather but my card is showing me that he is also trained by his adopted brother Kakashi Hatake and Tsunade Senju of the Sannin who also happens to be his Godmother. His chakra levels are off the charts, he has more chakra than even the Hokage, but somehow he also has the perfect chakra control, his nin, tai, gen, ken and fuijutsu are off the charts as well. He has done 50 D-ranks, 42 C-ranks, 30 B-ranks and 3 A-ranks and it is also showing that he an S-rank mission on-going. He has never been harmed on any mission in anyway, so I would suggest to stay as far away from him as possible." Kabuto finished and everyone had their jaws dropped on the floor.
Naruto narrowed his eyes at Kabuto, that S-rank mission is supposed to be a secret so how did someone got their hands on it. He'd have to keep an eye on this Kabuto character there is something was making Naruto wary of him.
"It would be unwise to underestimate any of your opponent's especially Naruto, even ones from the new village the sound could prove difficult opponents." just as Kabuto finished a member of a sound team with large gauntlets on each arm, who had heard him, jumped forward and attacked the silver haired ninja but he was able to dodge seconds later, though his glasses cracked from an unknown force.
'Hm he pushed air out from the gauntlets on his arms, if you were to break the gauntlets his attacks would become useless' thought Naruto observing the attack and its effectiveness.
"Alright Maggots sit down its time for the first exam." came a voice as a large man with scars all over his face walked in and stood behind the desk, "My name is Ibiki Morino, and I will be the proctor for the first test you will have one hour to answer the 10 questions you will not be given the final question until the final ten minutes if you are caught cheating five times, you and your team will be disqualified. Your test begins now!" he finished and sat down and smirked at the looks of horror on the genin's face when they saw the questions.
'These questions are far too difficult for a genin, hell I doubt most jonnin could answer them. That could only mean that they want us to cheat… Yes there are definitely several people placed in here who were given the answers.' Naruto mused to himself before he began his exam since he already knew the answers to all of the questions. When Naruto was writing his test, he looked around the classroom and noticed that Hinata had her byakugan activated and was already coping answers.
Shino was using his bugs to scout for anyone with answers. Kiba was using Akamaru that was on his head, high enough to spot someone else's sheet.
Tenten was using mirrors on the ceiling so she could get the reflection of another genin. Sakura was writing since she was a bookworm she could easily answer the exam. Sasuke had his sharingan activated and was copying someone's hand movements.
Naruto had finished his test in thirty minutes and decided to take a nap before the last question was asked. After forty five minutes, after the test started everyone was asked to put their pencil down and it was at that moment Naruto woke up but decided to keep up the act.
"Now that the weak ones are sorted out, let's begin the last question. However this one has its own rules." Ibiki started and everyone focused on him "Number 1: You can choose if you want or not to answer the question." Ibiki said.
"What happens if we choose not to answer it?" Temari asked.
"If you choose not to answer you automatically fail." Ibiki explained while smirking at the students.
"Then of course we will answer it." Someone replied.
"However if you chose to answer it and get it wrong you will fail and forever be unable to retake the chunnin exams, meaning you will be gennin for life." Ibiki explained, while still smirking at the chunin hopefuls.
"WHAT!" almost everyone yelled.
"You can't do that, there are people in here who are retaking the exam." Kiba said.
"I guess you guys have bad luck, my test my rules. If you don't want to risk it then give up." Ibiki said and everyone started pondering and a few started leaving.
A few minutes later Ibiki noticed that Naruto was almost half asleep and tossed a kunai that landed in front of him. Naruto didn't even flinch.
"WAKE UP NARUTO" Ibiki yelled.
"Just get it over with," Naruto started and Ibiki raised an eyebrow, "and even if I don't become a chunin then it's fine Ibiki-san, I don't need to be a chunin for my dream to come true, I'll just stay gennin for life and become the first gennin Hokage." Naruto said with a small smirk indicating that he had figured out the test.
'Damn the kid figured it out, oh well I don't think I will get anymore now' "Well anyone else... … ok now the rest of you … … … Pass!"Ibiki said.
"What? Why?" Kiba asked.
"You seem to have figured it out. Care you share it with others." Ibiki said pointing to Naruto. He sighed and started.
"The first part of the exam was information gathering. If you recall Ibiki said IF we get caught cheating we lose points. That could only mean that we were meant to cheat WITHOUT getting caught. Information is half the battle. The last part was to know if we had the guts to be chunnin. You can't abandon a mission just because it might be hard. A chunnin is expected to lead and as such he must inspire confidence and courage in his team." Naruto explained and most of the rookies stared at him as if he grew a second head.
"Precisely." Ibiki said until something came crashing through the window.
Everyone watched as someone entered flying through the windows. As it reached the middle of the classroom it opened to show a woman. She sent two kunais to the ceiling to secure what appeared to be a sign that said, "PROCTOR OF THE SECOND ROUND SEXY BUT TAKEN ANKO MITARASHI."
"Anko you are early." Ibiki sighed.
In the exam room Naruto was both stunned and amused by the arrival of the woman who he consider as his sister. It was a look of shock shared by most of the genin there were a few exceptions, Gaara's face held no expression whilst, Kiba, Kankuro and several others had perverted grins focused on the 'Sexy but Taken' Anko Mitarashi.
"What the hell Ibiki, 34 teams left you must be getting soft in your old age." Anko commented causing Ibiki to gain a tick mark on his forehead.
"I'm not getting soft Anko, we just have a bunch of talented genin here." Ibiki said while pointing at Naruto who was grinning at her.
"Hey Anko nee-chan." Naruto waved at her.
"Hey Naruto, so you are the reason that we have so many teams this year." Anko said, "why I'm not surprised!" she sighed dramatically.
"Hey you make it sound like it my fault." Naruto saud while pointing a finger at her.
"Oh I'm sure it is your fault." she shot back while grinning.
"Why yo-" Naruto was cut off when someone fake coughed when both of them looked at the source, they saw an irritated Ibiki.
"If you two are done arguing then I think you should take them to the next test spot." he said while a vein was throbbing at his forehead. Anko and Naruto both simply shrugged their shoulder before Anko looked at all of the chunin hopefuls.
"Alright maggots I want all you at training ground 44 in twenty minutes and if you are late even for a second then you will be disquallified." Anko said before she left. Naruto seeing that there was nothing more thay needed to do now also went after Anko leaving a stunned audience before all of broke out of their trance and immediately went for the training ground 44.