Chapter 16

The Exams Part 1

I do not own Naruto or Legend of Zelda

Naruto was putting on his orange jacket over his black T-shirt.. As he walked out of the house he was meet by Hinata and Ronin who was dressed in a cowl with a dragon helmet sticking out of the hood.

"You ready, little bro?" Ronin asked with a wide grin. Naruto nodded.

"We are gonna own this exam!" Naruto said.

"I believe we can get through this, we just need to stay together." Hinata said

"Yeah lets get going." Naruto said. Ronin and Hinata turned and walked towards the exam hall. As they walked through the village they heard murmurs of 'the demons are taking the exam.' and 'Hope they die.'

"Hey Ronin! Hey Naruto" A voice from the crowd said. Ronin turned it was Ren with Kiba and Sasuke behind him. They walked towards them.

"Hey. You guys ready for the exams?" Naruto asked.

"More ready than you'll ever be." Sasuke sneered.

"We don't need confrontation right now Sasuke." Hinata said lightly.

"Well I'm ready for this!" Kiba declared. Faron and his team walked up.

"Hey Ronin, some people are looking for you." he said blankly. Then they heard a voice from the crowd. They turned and saw a team made up of two boys and a girl they all had Konoha headbands.

"Ronin, I finally get to meet you in person." The boy in front said.

"Do I know you?" Ronin asked.

"No, but I know you," he said. "My name is Leo and I plan to beat you in the chunin exams!" Ronin chuckled. The girl to the right of Leo glared at him.

"It's not funny!" she said indignantly "I'm Tora, Leo's twin and that's Ken." She said pointing to the other boy.

"I don't like him," Ren muttered, "His name is too close to mine." Leo continued talking. " Our father is Lion the now retired Anbu member took you to the Hokage when you were child." Ronin narrowed his eyes. He remembered him he was the one who wanted to kill him.

"Retired?" He asked. Tora nodded.

"He's just a Jonin now." Ino walked up to them. "Guys let's hurry up everyone else must be there already!" She turned and saw Leo "Hello, my name's Ino who are you?" She asked. They introduced himself and continued on. When they got there they saw everyone gathering in front of a door. Two boys were blocking was a kid who looked pretty beaten up on the floor wearing a green jumpsuit. A girl and a boy with long hair stood next to him.

"You need to let us in!"

"you can't do this!"

People were saying the the boys. Sasuke walked through the crowd confronting them.

"This isn't even the right room, it's a genjutsu. So move out of my way because I have business on the third floor."

"What is he saying?" Asked some people. The boys looked at each other.

"So you figured out eh?" One said. "We're still on the second floor." Sasuke finished. The room number changed from three hundred and one from two hundred and one.

"But all you've done is catch on." the boy said. He lunged forward attempting to kick Sasuke who tried to block it. Ronin watched as the kid on the floor head perked up. The kid was then in between Sasuke and the other boy catching both of their attacks.

He's fast Faron thought. The kid let go of the two and the girl and long haired boy who must of been his teammates walked up to him.

"This isn't what you promised." the boy said. "Your the one who said you didn't want to draw attention to yourself." The girl finished. The boy turned and walked up to Sasuke with the girl following him.

"Hey, you there identify yourself," Naruto glared. It's always about Sasuke. He thought.

"You're a rookie aren't you? How old are you?" the boy continued.

"I'm not obliged to answer." Sasuke said.

The boy narrowed his noticed they were pupilless like hinata. "What?"
The boy said angrily.Cute. the girl thought. Sasuke turned and walked off. The teams walked off to the third floor.

When they reached the room Ronin walked in first then there was a flow of ninja's that came into the room. The rookies make a spot for themselves. Then there was some commotion on the far side of the room. When they looked over a Leaf ninja was having a dispute with a sound ninja's.

"What are these cards and why the hell my stats so damn low!" The sound ninja yelled and threw the card at him.

"Well unless to prove otherwise you clearly suck." The Leaf ninja said. The sound charged him and nailed him in the gut and before a second attack could land a large man appeared at the front of the room.

"Dosu, you want to get kicked out of the exams already?" The man said. "Everyone take your seats." Ronin was in the back, Hinata and Naruto were closer to the front and sitting next to each others. Everyone else was spread out.

"I'm Ibiki Morino and I am the instructor for this first test. The Chunin on the side of the room are assisting me in the exam. If we catch you cheating three times you and your team will be eliminated from the exams. You have and hour. Begin." Everyone picked up their pencils and started reading the questions. Everyone started scribbling on the paper.

A sand ninja by the name of Gaara sat next to Ronin. Ronin noticed him holding his hand out. He saw the formation of an eye in his hand. Ronin realised what this test was for a started making hand signs under the desk he made a tiny version of him in the palm of his hand he went of a started collecting answers.

Naruto looked dumbfounded at his test. He just stood there pretending to write down answers. Naruto sat there fearing his failure he continued to sit there.

"You need help?" Hinata whispered deathly quiet.

"No. I don't want you to get in trouble." Naruto whispered back. Hinata gave him a warm smile.

"If you really think so." Hinata said. Shikamaru was asleep on his completed test and Ino used her mind transfer jutsu to get answers from people. Shino sent his bugs to get answers for him. Everyone had their own way of getting answers.

"Team 36 you are eliminated!" Ibiki shouted. One of the kids resisted and was dragged away. Ronin could hear his struggle. Ronin acquired all of his answers and wrote the answers on a scroll. He saved it until later even though he knew Naruto was struggling. Ronin sat there and observed everyone in the room.

"Team 50 you are eliminated!" Ibiki shouted. One of the kids decided to fight back and the Chunin jumped him. Ronin watched and saw the girl getting mauled.

"Poor kid." He whispered as they took the unconscious body out the room. Ronin continued to survey the people.

"What are you doing?" Infurgus asked.

"Taking a exam." Ronin thought.

"What are you taking it for?" Infurgus asked.

"I want to move up in the ranks." Ronin thought. "When I raise my rank, I can get harder jobs, but they provide more income."

"Interesting." Infurgus said.

"Yeah." Ronin said. As the hour went on a teen in a black suit asked to go the bathroom. The chunin put cuffs on his arms and legs and guided him away. When he came back Ronin saw him pass a scroll to a blond girl

Ronin smirked. "clever." Naruto was still struggling. He had no answers on his test and was very frantic. Hinata was finished and she kept urging him to copy the answers. Naruto kept rejecting the offer although time was running short. Ronin knew he need to act and teleported the scroll to Naruto's knees.

Take the scroll Naruto. It said on the outside of the scroll. Naruto swiftly picked it up and carefully opened it. In it was the answers he was looking for. He wrote the answers hastfully and beat the time.

"Time is up! Drop your pencils!" Everyone who had one immediately complied. Shikamaru was woken up by the yelling. "Now there is one final question, but this one will make or break you chances, for if you get it wrong you can't take the exam again.

"That's not fair!" A girl said from the far side of the room. Ibiki grinned.

"It is when I'm here. Now if you want to forfeit and try again next year raise your hand. Some people's hands started going up. Naruto was talking to Hinata.

"I can't risk this I need to raise my hand for our sake." Naruto started to move his hand, but Hinata stopped him.

"All of the rookies are still here and you aren't known to be a quitter, so don't start now." Hinata whispered. Naruto thought then nodded. After a minute or two no more hands were raised.

"Congratulations, you all passed." Ibiki clapped. Everyone looked shocked.

"Then what was that whole 'You can't take the exams again' act for." The same girl asked.

"Those people who left were fearful. They quit when it got real, but as a shinobi you must alway make choices like that." Ibiki said. "None of the questions on the test mattered, because they were all questions on genin would know." Ren smiled.

"Clever." He said. Ibiki continued.

"Now you will continue on to the second part of the exams. Then suddenly a woman burst through the window. Everyone was wide eyed

"Hey! My name is Anko and i'll be your instructor for the second part of the exams! Now everyone follow me!." She walked out the room

"What the hell was that?!" Ronin shouted. "I mean, who breaks a perfectly good window!"

"My companion isn't the most subtle." Ibiki said. Ronin sighed and everyone began filing out of the room. After twenty minutes of walking the reach a forest that was surrounded by fences.

"Alright You have two hours to rest and you need to sign these." Anko said as some shinobi handed papers out.

"What are they for?" Ino asked.

"It's for if you die we are in no way responsible." Anko said. Hinata gasped lightly. After everyone got a paper the shinobi disappeared.

"You guys want to come and get ramen with me?" Ronin asked. Naruto and Faron wanted to come along but, no one else did.

"We will be back in about a hour." Ronin said. "Last call." Everyone shook their heads. Ronin grabbed Naruto and Faron and teleported away.

(At Ichiraku)

"Hey. Ameya where Ichiraku?" Naruto asked.

"He's getting more Veggies, but I thought you were taking the exams."

"Oh we are but, we got two hours until we have to go back." Naruto said walking inside. Faron tapped Ronin's arm.

"Do you have a minute?" Faron asked. Ronin nodded and walked to the side of the restaurant.

"Ronin I was thinking… Will people die in this part of the exams?" He asked. "I'm not sure if I want to risk my partners lifes, I've seen some of the people we'll be facing."

"Well Faron. I'm risking my best friends lives in this exam, but I have confidence that we can get through this. You just need to put faith in your team." Ronin said. Ronin put his hand on Faron's shoulder. "With you on their team they will get through this as well but, I'm glad you care for team even though you just meet them. Now let's eat." Ronin said. They both went inside and ate. After they did they, returned to the forest.

Anko started explaining the rules.

"There is a tower in the middle of the forest. You can only complete the exam if you have both scrolls." Anko held the two scrolls in the air. Some shinobi handed each team one of the two scrolls. Hinata read the scroll.

"It says Heaven." Hinata said, then raised her hand. "Can we open these scrolls?"

"That's for you to find out." Anko grinned.

"I think that means no." Naruto whispered to her.

"Now each team go to the gate with you team name or number." Anko said. Many of the genin headed off. Once they reached their gate Ronin equipped his ninja gear, but he kept the helmet.

"Ready." The shinobi next to them said. "Go!" The team ran through the gate and hopped in to the tree.

(With Ren's team)

Ren, Kiba and Sasuke were hopping through the trees. Kiba was in the lead guiding them towards the tower.

"Why are we going straight to the tower, when we could just ambush a team and take the scroll?" Sasuke asked.

"So we can ambush the team closer to the tower so we can finish faster." Kiba said. Akamaru barked.

"Yeah I smell that to, but it's not close no need to worry." Kiba said to Akamaru.

"Anyway. We need to stay focused Sasuke." Ren said. Sasuke only rolled his eyes.

"Who made you the damn leader? You aren't even from here." Sasuke said.

"Well obviously you can't be it for what happen to Sakura." Ren said. Sasuke just chuckled.

"She was a loser anyway." Sasuke said. Kiba stopped and turned to him.

"She was our teammate and your just gonna throw her away like that?" Kiba asked. Sasuke got into his face.

"Tell me what she brought to the team besides lower limitations." Sasuke sneered. Ren got in between them.

"Guys we don't have time for this, we need to stay focused." Kiba backed off.

"I guess you're right Ren, let's get going." Kiba sighed. Sasuke still had a angry expression but, he complied.

(With Ino's team)

"Alright ya bums, let's get that Heaven scroll and get to the tower." Ino cheered. Shikamaru sighed.

"This is so troublesome." Shikamaru said.

"Oh don't be like that Shikamaru. Shino can you use your bugs for recon?" Ino asked. Shino nodded.

"I already have. This forest has a lot of hazardous areas and animals, also including the other ninja teams here to." Shino said.

"Nice job. Now let's get moving I don't wanna be here any long than I have to." Ino said. Shikamaru and Shino nodded.

(With Koro's team)

"Okay team we have to stay vigilant if we want pass this trial." Koro said. Choji was currently eating.

"Alright Koro (munch) We'll be (munch) vigilant." Choji said. Yumi rolled her eyes.

"Come on Choji focus." Yumi groaned. Choji only continued eating.

"Alright let's get moving." Koro said.

(With Ronin's team)

Ronin, Naruto and, Hinata were running through the forest. Ronin was in the lead when he stopped in his tracks.

"What's wrong?" Hinata asked.

"Someone's here." Ronin said and threw an explosive kunai where the noise came from. The heard a yell and Ronin ran towards the voice. He hopped into the tree and found that he had injured one ninja. He was from the mist and Ronin grabbed him. Naruto and Hinata followed.

"Where are your friends?" Naruto asked.

"I will never tell you." The ninja said Ronin punched him.

"Try again." Ronin growled

"How about you!" The shinobi said. He was hit again.

"Now one last try." Ronin pulled out a kunai and placed it against his skull.

"Alright, alright their over there." He said. Ronin used his spectral sight in the direction the mist shinobi pointed. He saw the two other shinobi. Ronin knocked the ninja out then teleported behind the other two.

"Surprise!" Ronin yelled and cracked their heads together. They dropped the scroll. "It says earth!" Ronin yelled. Hinata cheered.

"Now let's get moving." Ronin said. Naruto and Hinata regrouped with him and they left the three.

(With Faron's team)

Faron was in the rear of the team. He was dressed out in his heavy armor.

"Faron you got any abilities that can give us any recon?" Nia asked who was in the middle.

"No I don't." Faron said. He avoided asking them. Faroi started to talk to Gori. "Are we going straight to the tower?" Gori started to speak.

"Yeah. I kinda stole a heaven scroll from someone from a mist shinobi." Gori grinned. Faron just went along with it.

"It's getting late. We might need to set up came." Nia said.

"I guess so but, let's keep moving we might get there in one day." Gori said.

"I have to disagree. Judging from how it looked outside it looks like a two day venture at least." Faron said.

"Well then let's pick up the pace." Nia said.

(With Ren's team)

Ren and Kiba were fighting off a grass shinobi while Sasuke was lying on the floor after she bit him. Ren looked frantically around.

"Where are her teammates!?" Ren asked as he avoided the girls tongue.

"Me and Akamaru don't smell anyone else." Kiba said. "We need to get Sasuke and get out of here!" Ren nodded the charged at the girl. He kicked her of the tree they were on and Kiba grabbed Sasuke and they disappeared.

When they got to the base of a tree far off they checked Sasuke.

"This is bad." Ren said as he saw a mark appear on his neck.

"We need to get to the tower. Did you get her scroll?" Kiba asked.

"Yes I got it when I kicked her off." Ren said and picked Sasuke up but, once he did Sasuke woke up.

"What was that?" Sasuke groaned.

"It was another shinobi. Can you walk?" Kiba said. Ren put him down. Sasuke wobbled then he stood still.

"Let's go." Sasuke growled and moved up into the tree. Kiba rolled his eyes and Ren growled at him but, they followed him.

(With Ino's team)

Shikamaru had another leaf shinobi in his shadow possession jutsu. Ino and Shino were fighting of their own.

"What are you doing! Us leaf shinobi need to stick together!" Ino yelled as she avoided a boulder flying at her.

"Well were aren't gonna lose in this exam!" The leaf ninja yelled back. Then he was hit by Ino. Ino continued to attack and eventually subdued him. She took the scroll.

"Nice a heaven scroll. Shino and Shika finish up and we need to get going. Shino finished of his opponent and Shikamaru dropped the shinobi after Shino knocked him out.

"Let's go. This place is so troublesome." Shikamaru sighed. Ino just rolled her eyes.

"Come on to the tower." Ino said.

(With Ronin's team)

Ronin, Naruto and Hinata could see the tower threw the trees. Then they got ambushed by a the same mist ninjas they attacked earlier seemed to be pouring out of the trees. Over the span of seconds there were hundreds of them.

"Hey there kids were gonna have to ask for our scroll back." The ninja in the front said. Ronin just scoffed.

"Try us, dirtbag." Naruto said with a wide grin on his face. Ronin and Naruto charged at the ninja Hinata used her Byakugan. She noticed that the ones more towards the middle are the only ones who had chakra.

"Guys start in the middle and work you way outwards." Hinata said observing the ones with chakra. The three mist shinobi looked frantic and they all decided to jump. "After them!" Hinata yelled and Ronin flew after them.

"Come here you bastards!" Ronin yelled and grabbed one by the leg and threw him towards the ground. Ronin stopped chasing the other two and started attacking the on on the forest floor. Ronin delivered punch after punch.

"Stop! Stop please!" The ninja cried as he got hit over and over.

"You wanted this." Ronin grinned sadistically. Then Naruto stopped him before the ninja was beat to death.

"We've wasted enough time already. I didn't know you could be so sadistic." Naruto said. Ronin stared at the ninja.

"Sorry I just… got ahead of myself." Ronin said. Then he nodded. "Let's go." The trio walked into the tower.

(With Faron's team)

Faron, Nia and Gori sat around a campfire. Faron had his helmet to his side. Nia moved close to him. Gori noticed Nia's attraction towards Faron and despised him.

"So Faron you have any stories you can tell us?" Nia asked. Faron thought for a moment.

"Yeah umm… While I was traveling here I went through a city and it was a strange city for one." Faron said. Nia said. "And I met this guy who was selling food and he called me over, so I went towards him." Nia was confused but nodded."And he said to me do you want a cat?" Faron said. Nia turned away in disgust, but she giggled anyway and Gori just groaned.

"Faron just go and get some food." Gori said. Faron walked away then Gori glared at Nia.

"What are you doing!" Gori growled at her.

"What? He's a nice guy you just need to get to know him." Nia said. Gori looked more outraged.

"You hung out with him!"

"No, I hung with him and his friends. You just need to called down."

"No! He came out of nowhere and he wears armor! Like seriously!"

"Well he was a knight before so he can't really be a ninja immediately."

"How would you know that!"

"Well I asked but, I didn't know you'd get this jealous of him!" Then Faron came back with three rabbits.

"Jealous of who?" Faron asked.

"No one." Gori growled. "I going to sleep." Nia looked extremely flustered.

"Are you okay." Faron asked as he started to skin the rabbit. Nia sighed.

"Nothing." Nia said. Nia lied down. "It's just a something between us."

"Well I'm sorry to intrude." Faron said. He continued to skin the rabbits then cooked them. He lied down next to Nia when the rabbits were cooking. "Do you like star-gazing?"

"Yeah I do. Do you?" Nia asked back.

"Yeah. It was something I did as I traveled." Faron said. He cooked the rabbits and sat up and grabbed one. Nia followed. After they ate and chatted a little more they turned in. hours Later Faron woke up. Something felt wrong.

"Get up." he towld hie team mate "We need to go now."

(With Ino's team)

They had set up camp near the tower and were resting so they could be ready for anything that happened.

"The tower is huge." Ino said as she stared right at it.

"Why are we here and not in there?" Shino asked with a confused undertone.

"Because we need to rest up. My idea." Shikamaru said sleepily.

"Yeah we don't know what's in there." Ino said.

"I could send my bugs to go see what is in there." Shino said.

"I guess you could but, does it waste you energy?" Ino asked.

"No it doesn't." Shino said sending some bugs in the tower.

"Alright, well when you get intel wake us up." Ino said and sat against the tree. Shino only sighed.

(With Ren's team)

Kiba was the only one sleeping out of the three. Ren couldn't trust Sasuke to stay awake. Sasuke on the other hand was training against a tree. Ren just sat there staring. Sasuke stopped.

"What are you looking at?" Sasuke asked.

"You. I can't trust you." Ren said.

"Well I can't trust you." Sasuke said. "I doesn't even matter." Sasuke jumped up the tree. Ren couldn't keep his eyes open and he fell asleep.

(With Ronin's team)

When they pushed the door they saw a shrine inside. They walked closer to observe it.

"If you do not possess Heaven, gain knowledge and be prepared. If you do not possess Earth, run through the field and seek strength. If you open both Heaven and Earth scrolls, dangerous paths turn into safe ones. This is the secret of something something. It shall lead you on your way." Hinata read from it.

"What does it mean?" Naruto asked.

"I don't know but, it said something about Heaven and Earth so I think we should open the scrolls." Ronin said.

"Are you sure?" Hinata asked.

"Yeah, we should." Ronin said. Hinata opened the Earth scroll and Naruto opened the Heaven scroll. After they did smoke rose from the scrolls. Naruto and Hinata jumped back and they all got into their battle-stance. After the smoke cleared Iruka was standing in front of them.

"Iruka sensei?!" They all said in unison. Iruka had a long smirk on his face. Ronin grinned back.

"Why are you here?" Naruto asked.

"Well I'm your messenger." Iruka said.

"Messenger? For what?" Ronin asked.

"To congratulate you." Iruka said. "Your the second team here." Ronin looked confused.

"Who made it before us?" Hinata asked

"A Sand Shinobi team." Ronin narrowed his eyes. "Can we come inside the tower?" he asked. Iruka nodded his head and the team walked inside the tower.

(With Ren's team)

Ren looked down through the trees into a clearing with Kiba and Sasuke and the other side of him. He saw Choji sitting eating chips he saw Koro with his katana in hand searching the ground not far from Choji was Yumi. Ren smiled.

"Easy prey" Malakite said in his head.

"I don't need you to tell me that." he muttered. Kiba looked at him confused who he was talking to. Ren shook his head dismissively. He heard the leaves rustle on the other side of the clearing. He looked at Akamaru who sniffed the air then barked.

"It's Shino's team," Kiba said. "They might be on their way to the tower."

"Either way we should burn them all." Ren narrowed his eyes.

"You need to shut up." Unknown to the three teams there was another team above Ren's team in the trees. The one in front was wearing a black trench coat and spiky black hair and a hidden sound village headband.

He looked down on Ren who was looking around. He chuckled. "Sometimes when looking for danger, you look the wrong way." He looked at the girl to the right of him who had light brown eyes with tan skin and shoulder length dark blonde hair. She wore a tank top with a tanto on her back and her headband on her shoulder

"Midori, I want you to kill that girl in the clearing," He turned to the boy on his left who had black eyes and short black hair which was kept out of his face by his headband.

"And Kazoku cover her."

(Ren)

Ren's eyes were fixed on Koro. "We attack in three, two, one." He unsheathed his sword and jumped down Koro looked up and moved out the way.

"If I remember correctly we never finished our sword fight." He said smirking. Koro charged. Their blades collided together as they fought. Ren looked over Koro's shoulder. For a reason unknown to Ren ,Choji was growing. Ren's distraction left him open and Koro slashed at his stomach. Ren blocked it with gauntlet.

Right now was a bad time to wear his more "flexible" armor.

"Human boulder jutsu!"

"What?" Ren thought as Koro jumped out of the way. Ren looked and saw Choji coming straight at him Ren moved to the side throwing an explosion tag kunai where he once stood. Choji stopped before he hit it and shrunk down.

Yumi jumped up to the trees and was hit in the shoulders by two shurikens. Then a girl fell from a tree and impaled her through the chest with a tanto.

"No!" a voice yelled from the trees. Shino and his team dropped from the trees. The girl who stabbed Yumi searched her looking for a scroll. When she found it she took the sword out of Yumi's chest and jumped back into the trees.

Everyone ran up to Yumi. Ren took off his gauntlets and opened his pouch pulling out a medkit. Next to him Shino was shaking while holding her hand. "Shino," she said. A trickle of blood ran down her mouth. Ren cut open her shirt with a kunai and started to apply pressure to the wound.

Yumi turned to Koro. "I'm sorry. Sorry that we can't finish the exams now." Suddenly three figures burst through the trees. It was Faron and his team. As he saw Yumi he fell to his knees.

"We're too late." he said he got up and walked to her body. Yumi turned to look at Shino. "Shino," she coughed. "Remember that, that I always love you." Shino started shaking his head.

"No don't die. Don't please." He was crying. She closed her eyes. Her breathing stopped. Ren looked at his hands. They were covered in Yumi's blood. Faron took off his helmet and picked up Yumi with both of his arms. He said something in another language and set her down.

He looked at Koro with pure hatred in his eyes. "Who did this?"

"A girl. She was wearing a tanktop and had a tanto," Koro said. "Here." He said handing Faron his katana. "For when you find her." Faron took the Katana and he and his team left.

Koro turned to Ren he handed him a scroll. "Since we can't pass you should have this," he said. "Avenge her." Ren nodded. He jumped into the trees with his team as Koro picked up Yumi's body.

"She died as she lived, weak and pathetic." Ren stopped. "Shut up right now." Ren muttered his eyes turned green.

"Go on, Avenge her Ren. Feed me the soul of her murderer."

"Oh trust me, you won't be hungry for long." Ren continued to go to the tower. "Not for long."

Hey Guys. Hope you liked the chapter not sure How long the Exams are gonna last and people speak up. PM me I want to hear you voices and see what you like and what you don't. Fel is out, peace.