FR: ow

Naruto: hey FR whats wrong?

FR: Ino found out about the clone she was chasing and got me when I was eating dinner and finally got me

Sakura: well it's what you get for putting her through all this heartbreak

FR: hey it came out this way

Naruto: oh so you decided to have Hinata and Ino go through all that

FR: …...kinda

Sasuke: why did you have to make me so...so ….this!

FR: because your starting life made it easier to make you this way

Naruto: I get the feeling that you will be putting us through something else

FR:...

Naruto: damn you

FR: anyway everyone take your places. Story is about to start

Ino: FANREADER!

FR: well everyone here's the story *runs away*

Review responses

SkylerHollow: glad you enjoyed it. I felt like it wouldn't be Naruto unless he did something mischievous and it was fun to make him do it

Bloody dragon fang: I seem to do that a lot to him in this fic

thor94: sorry if you didn't like Sakura keeping her memories for such a reason, anyone else would purge it immediately but I wanted her to be afraid of Naruto and couldt think of a more plausible reason that fits with her. And as for your other concern it will happen soon (sorta) and I have a trigger to do it so I hope this alleviates your concerns but it won't happen at the time you want it.

"Normal speech"

'Normal thoughts'

"Demon/Summon speech"

'Demon/Inner Sakura/Summon thoughts'

Jutsu name

(author comment) - not a lot of them

flashback/memory

~locations and transitions~

Few things before we start. First there will be numbers here put into specific parts, if you guys don't like it then let me know and I will fix it. Second there is a mindscape scene her (spoiler alert) and to help you with the scene, the trees are massive, far bigger than Kurama, to make him look like a normal fox in the forest and Naruto would be a bug (to scale) more or less

Also most of what happens will be canon and I may have skipped them in order to show what was happening in other points of view

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the dvds and blu rays

Chapter 23: trouble in the exam room

Sakura was standing outside of room 303 with Kakashi who was reading his little orange book. Kakashi was a little stunned at seeing only Sakura walk up without her teammates but she told him that they were both here, just doing other things, though she didn't really know what Sasuke was doing. After waiting a few minutes, both Kakashi and Sakura saw Sasuke walking towards them, but had bruises on his body. Kakashi looked up from his book with a raised eyebrow "what happened to you?"

Sasuke just huffed and looked at the two "what are you two waiting for?"

Kakashi went back to reading his book "we were waiting for you and Naruto-kun but now we just wait for him"

~with Naruto~

Naruto sat in the boys bathroom, trying to catch his breath after finally getting away from Tenten "If I knew pranking the Hyuga clan would've brought me this kind of trouble…...I would have kept away from Tenten longer". He focused on his hearing to see if Tenten was still nearby, he would have used his nose but….he was in a bathroom. He could hear grumbling outside the door to the bathroom and he breathed a sigh of relief when the grumbling was getting farther away. "Finally! Now I just got to get to the room" he was about to walk out of the bathroom when he thought of a faster way to get there. Allowing his emotion sensing tell him where everyone was, he was hit by multiple waves of nervousness, greed, panic but the ones that hit him most were the bloodlust he felt from Gaara and KI coming from two other individuals. He could feel smaller bits of it from other people but these two had massive amounts of it. 'May~be it's a bad idea to use the Kiwarami on any of them. Besides it would be a waste of chakra'. Naruto then decided to just run to the room and hope Tenten wasn't waiting for him

~back with the rest of team 7~

Sasuke was becoming impatient waiting for Naruto and was about to just enter the room but was stopped when he heard Kakashi speak

"Ah Naruto-kun! You made it" Kakashi said in a dull tone while steal reading his book

Sasuke and Sakura both looked down the hall to see Naruto running towards them.

Once he got in front of them he rubbed the back of his head "heh heh sorry, Tenten-chan wouldn't stop chasing me. Uh...she didn't get here already right?"

Sakura was the one to respond to his question "if you are talking about the brown haired girl with the twin buns, than yeah. She entered not long ago. Why?"

"Benefit to my health"

Sakura would have asked for more details but she noticed something about Naruto "hey Naruto-san, you have a kunai in your jacket….."

Naruto lifted his right arm to look at the base of his jacket to see a kunai halfway through. "Oh so that's what's been scratching me". He said as he pulled it out of his jacket

Kakashi,Sasuke and Sakura sweatdropped at how he acted like it was a simple thing

Kakashi put away his book before he cleared his throat "well it's good to see all three of you here. It was a bit shocking to see Sakura-chan arrive alone, but from the way you two came in, means you had a bit of an extra obstacle to deal with."

Naruto sheepishly rubbed his head while Sasuke just scowled

"Well before you enter, I just want to tell you three good luck and I'm counting on you. So get in there and show them what you've got"

All three of them nodded their heads with looks of determination and walked into the room. Kakashi looked at the door before he walked away

~inside the room~

The minute they walked into the room everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to them. They could feel the KI aimed at them from all the foreign shinobi and it unnerved Sakura and Sasuke a bit

Naruto could feel it but after his training with Kurama he thought that this amount wasn't much. Kurama felt the KI aimed at his kit so he decided to have Naruto respond

"Hey kit. Give them a bit of a taste of the KI that you learned to use"

'Rama-tou-sama? You remember that when I used it, it didn't do anything but if you say I should than ok'

"Just remember to aim it before you use it"

Naruto then unleashed a bit of his own KI towards the foreign shinobi and was shocked to see most of them sweat. He could feel the panic and fear that was now directed at him 'why are they so afraid now? I only used a bit…..and even the max I can used doesn't do anything' after he finished his though he could hear Kurama laughing hard 'hey what's so funny?!'

"Kit the reason that you think your Ki doesn't do anything is because the only one you used it on was me"

Naruto thought about what Kurama just said and the dots started to connect '...so...wait does that mean….?'

"To someone like me, the amount you unleash would do nothing but to the ningin, you gave enough to make even that kiri swordsman you met in wave to shiver in fear"

Naruto now had a dumbfounded look on his face 'why didn't you tell me?!'

"Because this wouldn't have happened and I wouldn't get this kind of entertainment if I did"

'TOU-CHAN!'

"Bwahahahahaha"

Naruto chose to not let his team know that he caused everyone to shake in fear. After everyone turned back to what they were doing albeit a little more nervously, team seven heard a familiar voice

"Troublesome, so you guys are here too" Team seven turned to see it was team ten, walking towards them

Naruto noticed that they were not shaking or nervous 'good thing they didn't get hit by my KI'. his eyes went to Ino who was looking at Sakura before her eyes shifted to him but he moved his head to avoid eye contact

Team ten now stood in front of team seven and Ino kept her sight on Sakura at the moment. 'This could be my chance to apologize to Naruto-kun'. When she glanced at Naruto, she noticed that he turned his head so he wouldn't look at her and she felt her heart hurt '...Naruto-kun' she thought sadly

Naruto could feel the sadness and regret coming off Ino but kept his gaze on Shikamaru and it hurt him not to say anything to her 'Ino-chan'

Choji was munching on a bag of chips as he started talking "so I heard that *munch* a lot of us *munch* from our class *munch munch* are in these exams"

Shikamaru sighed at how his friend spoke to team seven "Choji, you heard it wrong, the guy said that only a few of us are entering. The rookies of this year they called us"

"I think it would sound better if they called us the 'Rookie Nine' since it's just the three teams"

Team Seven and Ten looked over to see that it was Kiba who spoke with the rest of Team eight behind him

Naruto smiled as Kiba walked up to him. Both stared at each other before fist bumping "good to see you guys again. It's been a while"

Kiba gave a feral grin "for me and Shino maybe but I hear that you've been training with Hinata. Let's hope she helped you out of being the dead last" he said with a chuckle as Akamaru popped his head out of his jacket giving an agree *arf*. 'she would always talk about how you helped her train but she won't tell us with what' Kiba thought as he patted Akamaru's head

Hinata's face turned completely red after Kiba said that as she tried to bury herself in her coat "K-kiba….!"

Naruto chuckled a bit at seeing Hinata trying to be a turtle "so the 'Rookie Nine' huh? I like it but it makes us sound like we belong in a TV show"

Kiba felt a tick grow on his head "hey I thought the name was cool! Don't go making it sound stupid!"

"Hey I was only saying!…." Naruto would have continued but he sensed some very dark negative emotions coming their way

"You guys should really keep it down. You're causing a scene"

The Rookie Nine looked back to see a silver haired man with glasses walking up to them. Naruto was immediately on edge as this guy approached but once he was close enough, Kiba asked what everyone wanted to know "hey who are you?"

The man adjusted his glasses as he introduced himself, "My name is Kabuto Yakushi and you guys must be the rookies for this years chunin exams"

Naruto didn't like the feel of this guy. He could tell that the calm pleasant demeanor was a lie. Naruto flared his nose and the guys scent hit him 'he smells like snakes! And the feeling I'm getting from him: envy, anger, and…. Rama-tou-chan? Whats that last one?'

"Hmm malice. You felt it before but in very small doses. This guy also seems a lot stronger than most here. Be careful around this guy kit…..and it seems there is another one, much stronger. Watch your back"

'Right tou-chan!'

Naruto got out of his internal conversation in time to hear Kabuto speak about cards

"...have someone you want to know about, then these can help you out. I even have info on you guys. So any takers"

Sasuke stepped forward "I want to know about Gaara from Suna, Rock Lee of Konoha and….." turning his head towards Naruto "Naruto Uzumaki of Konoha"

Most of the group looked concerned, wondering why Sasuke would want info on one of his teammates

Naruto already knew that Sasuke would ask something like this. He would let it go and just have the info given but he wanted to mess with him as well so he stepped forward too "and show me the Tem...Sasuke Uchiha"

Kiba was holding his stomach, trying to hold in his laughter at Naruto almost calling Sasuke, Teme like usual "dude *chuckle* you don't *chuckle* even call him by name *laughter*"

Sasuke glared at Naruto but it wasn't clear on whether it was because of the teme comment or that Naruto was trying to one up him

Kabuto adjusted his glasses and knelt down, while using his hand to hide the smirk he had "aw you know their names. That's no fun". He then shuffled the deck of cards in his hands before using his right to swipe four cards out "here they are"

The rookies gathered around Kabuto as he placed one of the cards on the ground and placing his index finger in the center of it. Confused by this Choji spoke up "hey what are you doing?"

"I'm using my chakra to reveal the secrets of the card" (clow card ...sorry couldn't help myself). "Let's start with Gaara". Information appeared on the blank card as well as a picture of Gaara "lets see: Gaara no Sabaku or Gaara of the Desert. Same age as you guys and he hails from Suna along with his teammates Kankuro and Temari, who happen to be his brother and sister respectively. His skills aren't on record. He has done 0 D-ranks, 24 C-ranks 10 B-ranks and wow…..3 A-ranks. It also says that he has done all of these missions without a scratch"

Everyone was shocked and wide eyed when they heard this. Shikamaru couldn't grasp the idea "he's done THREE A-ranks without so much as a scratch on him!"

Naruto was surprised that someone that was like him did all this without a scratch. Made him think about his own level 'how strong is he!?'

Kabuto put away Gaara's card and pulled out another one, doing the same thing to reveal its secrets "now for Rock Lee. he hails from Konoha. He is a year older than you. His Ninjutsu and genjutsu are non-existent but his Taijutsu is at a level that would give Jonin a work out. His teammates are Tenten and Neji Hyuga. For missions he's done….."

While Kabuto was talking about the team's mission list, Hinata tuned out what was being said as she looked down with apprehension.

Naruto felt the increasing levels of doubt and fear coming from the girl and moved to stand at her side. He placed a hand on her shoulder and as she looked back at him he gave her a reassuring smile that told her not to worry about it. He turned back to Kabuto after he finished the mission list and pulled out another card

"Now for Sasuke"

Naruto could feel an increase of greed coming from not only Kabuto but from somewhere else in the room. He would have passed it off but it was too well timed with Kabuto's increase and the amount coming from the other person increased many times more than Kabuto. He wanted to turn his head and find the person but his gut was telling him not to move. He chose to just look at Kabuto as the details were spoken

"Sasuke Uchiha, obviously from Konoha, his teammates are Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno and team sensei is Kakashi Hatake. He is adept at Taijutsu, intermediate at ninjutsu and average at genjutsu. He is the last loyal Uchiha of Konoha with his brother Itachi being a missing-nin. He has unlocked his Sharingan although it is incomplete right now. He has done 47 D-ranks, 3 C-ranks, 0 B-ranks and a C-rank turning A-rank. Impressive"

Team ten turned turned to Sasuke and Sakura while Team eight turned to Naruto. Kiba nearly shouted at Naruto "dude when did you guys do an A-rank mission?!"

Sasuke smirked at the attention, Sakura shuffled on her feet and Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly "it just kinda happened"

Kiba pointed at Naruto and gave a demand "you gotta tell us the details later"

Naruto just nodded his head as Kabuto shifted his glasses and put Sasuke's card in his pocket and put down the last card "well here's the last one. Naruto Uzumaki, he is on the same team as Sasuke, he is considered the deadlast of his class. His taijutsu is average at best, his ninjutsu is basic and has no talent for genjutsu. For his mission list it's….oh this is interesting"

Sasuke was getting furious as the info was given to him. All of it was supporting his thoughts on Naruto, he was a nobody but it was the last thing Kabuto said that got his attention "what's so interesting!?"

"Most of the mission list is the same as Sasuke but it says here that he has TWO A-rank missions on his record"

Sasuke was seeing red 'how does he have another A rank mission on his record and I don't!? What the hell did he do to get that!?"

Kiba bolted to stand in front of Naruto and grabbed him by the collar and shook him "dude forget what I said earlier! You gotta tell me what the A-rank missions were now!"

Naruto would have said something but he couldn't stop his head from getting dizzy "Ki~i~i~ba~a~a~a! Ple~e~e~ease Ssssto~o~o~p"

Hinata placed her hand on Kiba getting him to stop "um Kiba I um think you should let Naruto-kun go now"

Kiba looked to Hinata and then back to Naruto who was now limp in his arms. "Oops" Kiba said as he let go and Naruto fell unconsciously to the ground in a heap

"Naruto-kun!" yelled both Ino and Hinata as they immediately went to his side to check on him.

Kiba looked down at Naruto with a wince as Akamaru popped up on top of his head giving a small whine "yeah Akamaru. I think I overdid it….."

As Ino and Hinata were checking on Naruto, a group of Oto-nin came up and attacked Kabuto. As one threw a punch that Kabuto dodged, Naruto bolted awake holding his ears in pain "argh grr, what the hell!"

Kiba noticed that not only Naruto but Akamaru as well were holding their ears in pain

As Naruto was trying to get the ringing in his ears to stop, he noticed everyone looking towards the front of the class. He saw that it was Ibiki, who seemed to be talking to the group of Oto-nin not far from him but he couldn't hear what was being said. Seeing an opportunity to mess with the man he waved his hand in the air and said "Hey Grumpy Scarface! How you been!".

Ibiki knew that voice, he had to deal with that kid several times when Anko brought him to his department like it was bring your sibling to work day. Looking towards the voice with a twitching eye, he saw that it was indeed Naruto 'oh great, it's Anko's clone'. He saw that a bunch of the kids in the room were chuckling at what Naruto said, 'I hate this kid'. He then addressed the whole room "all right SILENCE!"

Everyone stopped chuckling and gave the man their attention

"My name is Ibiki Morino and I will be your judge, jury and if need be your executioner"

Everyone, sans a few shivered at the way the man said that as if he would follow up in the execution

Naruto couldn't hear a thing but as Ibiki continued his hearing was returning but now everything was muffled mumbling. He then noticed everyone was heading to the seats. Looking up he saw Hinata offering him a hand to get up. Once on his feet he tried to clear his ear with his pinky to get some hearing back. He noticed everyone was sitting in the seat so he figured he should get to his assigned seat. Once he was seated he saw that Hinata had sat next to him and gave her a smile. She started to say something but he stopped her by raising his hand and pointing to his ear before shaking his nodded and understood what he meant. Naruto turned to the front to see Ibiki was talking to the whole room but heard just mumbling

'Rama-tou-chan can you do something about my ears? I can't hear what's going on'

"Hmm it will take a bit, but all that's being said is that you have a written test to do. Ten questions total and you start with ten points, get one wrong and you lose a point, get caught cheating and you lose two points. If you get a zero than your whole team fails and have to leave. The ningen standing by the walls around the room are watching you so you don't cheat. You have an hour…...never thought I would talk about something like this

Naruto began to sweat at hearing this but kept his calm. He wasn't a genius but he was decent so he figured if he can get one right than his team should be fine 'Thanks Rama-tou-chan. I can do this. No problem'

Once he saw everyone flip the piece of paper that was in front of them, he did the same and he began to sweat more. On the piece of paper were diagrams and charts for some of the questions 'don't panic, don't panic! Just read the questions and find one you can do'. He read the first question

[if an enemy is 100 meters away, at what angle would you need to throw your kunai in order to land a fatal blow. Please be sure to put in the amount of strength used, speed of the kunai, where the kunai would land, condition of the kunai, how the wind would affect the trajectory and how long it would take for death to occur]

Naruto gave a foxy smile at the question 'ok I can't do that one, what's the next question?"

~45 minutes left with Sakura~

'...X would equal 20 and at an angle of 64 degrees you have an…...87 percent chance of taking out 95 percent of the enemies with a Katon jutsu of b-rank'. Sakura was almost done with the exam as she breezed through another question 'well that one took some thinking. Now I just have a few more to go. I wonder how Sasuke-san and Naruto-san are doing?'. Once this thought came to mind she realized something 'these questions are high level. This is something that wasn't shown in the academy! Sasuke-san should be fine…...but Naruto-san doesn't stand a chance at this!' looking down at Naruto she could tell he was panicking 'come on Naruto, you gotta be able to answer at least one of these!'

~same time with Sasuke~

'I can barely answer any of these so that means the dobe doesn't have a chance. If he fails and gets me out of the exams, then I'm going to kill him!' he thought as he glared at the back of Naruto's head. He then began to look around the room 'better get my answers. Now ...someone here must be...there!' Sasuke didn't know the answers to some of them, so he chose to find someone who looked like they did. he saw someone in front of him going through the test at a fast pace 'Sharingan!'. Sasuke began to copy the movements of the other participant 'hn, perfect. This guy has all that I need'

~35 minutes left with Naruto~

Naruto was at his wits end 'THAT'S IT! I gotta cheat! But how?! I don't have any skills to use for this!' Naruto then started listing off his skills in a panicked voice in his head 'Bunshin? Oh yeah, that's smart. Another me pops up and then what? Henge? And do what? Henge into someone else in front of everyone and they will still know it's me! Kiwarami? And switch places with something or someone with everyone still looking! They will notice my switch immediately!' he took a breath to calm himself 'smell? Oh yeah that could work…..in telling me how many pencils are in the room! Hearing?...if someone was mumbling the answers and if I could hear in the first place! I could copy off Hinata-chan...if she let me but what if we both get caught! I'll ruin her chances! That's it I'M SCREWED'

~20 minutes left with Ino~

Ino had just finished giving the answers to Shikamaru after she used her mind transfer jutsu on Sakura to get the answers and then using it on Shikamaru to give him the answers. She had already written them down on her test and was waiting for the time to run out. Leaning on her hand, her eyes wandered the class, seeing that a few were already finished and a few were still working on it. Her eyes then landed on Naruto and she could see that he was shaking 'Naruto-kun?' she then realized that he might not be able to answer the questions and is panicking 'oh no! He won't be able to advance it he doesn't get one right and on how hard these are he might not get it' she began to think of something she could do 'I could…..but should I?. I already hurt him enough…...but maybe I can use this as a start to apologize' nodding to herself she put her hands in her signature hand sign and quietly said "mind transfer jutsu". Her jutsu flew through everyone before it hit her target

~Naruto's Mindscape~

Ino appeared in a wide open field of flowers bathed in moonlight and surrounded by a forest of massive trees that seemed to be more like a forest for titans. Ino looked around and couldn't help but be in aw "his mind is beautiful…..". After Ino shook her head she began to look around "no time for that, I can use this time to find Naruto-kun and apologize…..maybe he will talk to me again…." as she looked around she spotted something a few feet away from her. Walking closer she saw it was a sleeping fox but it wasn't an ordinary fox. It had a black pattern to it's fur but what shocked her more was that it had five tails "why would Naruto-kun have something like this in his mind? Maybe his mind constructed it because he thought it was cool, I mean it basically has the same colors as Naruto-kun but why five tails?" after thinking about it for a minute she could only think of one plausible solution "maybe he heard about the Kyuubi but not the full details about how it attacked the village, he did skip that day *chuckle*. It would explain why foxes were his favorite animal. He can be a bit absent minded about a lot of things" as she crouched down to the sleeping fox she lifted her hand and pet it gently. 'It's fur is so soft'. She continued to pet the fox and was surprised to see it lean into her hand and begin to purr. 'KAWAII' she was so tempted to hug the fox despite it being as big as her but shook her head "no time for that. Where's Naruto-kun?" she said as she got up and looked around "...he could be anywhere in that forest and I don't have time to look". She felt like she missed her opportunity but she felt like she had to say something as a few tears slid down her face "Naruto-kun…..I hope you can hear me because I wanted to say...I'm *sniff* I'm sorry. For slapping you, for everything I said to you…...for being a horrible friend. I just *sob* want you back in my life…..to smile at me, talk to me…...to be with me". Wiping away the tears in her eyes she chose to do what she really came here to do, not noticing the slight twitch of the sleeping fox's ears or that she was being watched

~Kurama's den~

Kurama noticed someone enter his kits mindscape and immediately got out of his den and made his way to where the intruder was. 'No one is allowed in here but my kit!'. As Kurama made it to the edge of the forest, looking at the usual entrance area that Naruto comes in, he saw the back of someone. Focusing his sight on the person he saw it was the blonde haired girl that hurt his kit and she was kneeling down petting Naruto 'how dare she enter here. She has no right to even come close to him!'. As he got ready to come out and attack her he was stopped when she began to speak. Now focusing on his hearing he caught a bit of what she was saying

"...sorry. For slapping you, for everything I said to you…...for being a horrible friend. I just *sob* want you back in my life…..to smile at me, talk to me…...to be with me"

Kurama thought about what she said and about how his kit felt about this ningin but as he was looking towards her he noticed something on the other side of the clearing. His eyes widened when he saw what it was 'oh no'. Kurama turned to move at the edge of the forest to remain hidden as quickly as possibly to get to the other side.

Once he made it to where he needed to be he reached his hand out to grab something that just lunged in the direction of the girl. He was fortunate to grab it and hold it in his closed hand. Moving deeper into the forest to avoid being heard, he could feel the being trying to break out of his hand "what do you think your doing?"

"LET GO OF ME! LET ME AT HER! LET ME LOOSE"

Kurama got deep into the forest and lifted his closed fist and spoke to the being inside it "no! You are not going to do anything but go back"

"Why should I? She is right there! This is the best chance to get her"

"He wouldn't want her to be hurt! He cares too much for her!"

"Then why do I want to kill her?"

Kurama was taken aback as he gaped a bit as his fist

"I will get both this bitch and that blue haired one as well. I will kill them both! I will do to them what I did to that fat midget Gato"

Kurama was stunned even more at this and saw that the being forced a very small bit of space in between his fingers. All that was seen was a red dot in the darkness of his fist. Getting an angry look he clasped his other hand over his fist "go back to the shadows"

"You can't get rid of me! You will see me again…..dad" the being said with venom in its voice

Kurama crushed the being and watched as a dark mist flew deeper into the forest, towards an area of dead misshapen trees. Looking back towards the minds entry "...kit"

~Hinata real world~

Hinata had noticed the panic Naruto was going through and wanted to help him but the only way she could would be to allow him the copy from her sheet but when she tried to get his attention he didn't seem to hear her. She remembered what happened earlier and figured that he couldn't hear yet. She was going to poke him in his side from under the desk but then she saw something that surprised her. Naruto was writing down the answers, she could see them from the corner of her eye and she could tell they were right 'how is Naruto-kun….?'. She turned her head slightly to look at him and noticed that the facial expression he had was one he used, but it was off somehow. The Naruto than moved his eyes to see her and he smiled while writing something on the side of the paper. Hinata turned her gaze to what was written and her eyes widened

[I'm Ino]

It took a second for Hinata to register what she read and then it finally clicked 'Ino must have used her clan jutsu on Naruto. She's helping him. But why?' she sat there looking at Ino in Naruto's body from her peripheral vision, thinking of why Ino would help Naruto. She then remembered that Naruto and her were close friends. This thought led to her over thinking things 'could...could she also be ...?'

~5 minutes left~

Naruto blinked his eyes, after he felt odd 'weird ...but whatever! I have to get at least one of these right! How much time do I have left?' turning his head to the clock his eyes fell out of his head as he saw he only had a little under five minutes left 'WHAT THE HELL! How can I only have FIVE minutes left?! It was around twenty last time I checked!' Naruto placed his face in his hands looking at his paper 'that's it...I have to put everything into the tenth….ques…..tion' Naruto noticed that his paper was filled with answers. He couldn't believe it, just a moment ago he was panicking about solving any of these and now he lost a chunk of time and all the answers are here. He was so stunned that he jumped a bit when he heard

"PENCILS DOWN"

Naruto hadn't realized that his hearing had returned. Looking up he saw that time was up and he breathed a heavy sigh of relief 'whatever or whoever helped me...thanks'

~Ino~

Ino was exhausted from using so much chakra for her Mind Transfer jutsu three times but she felt some satisfaction in helping out Naruto as well as her team 'I wish I could have at least apologized to him in there but at least I helped him out with this. When we talk again, I'm going to ask him about that fox in his head. That is if he forgives me…..no I have to get him to see how sorry I am. Maybe when these exams are over'

Ino began to pay attention to what Ibiki was saying and was shocked when he told them the rules of tenth question.

"If anyone gets this question wrong, regardless of your previous score, your whole team fails and you will never again be able to take these exams" Ibiki said getting everyone to start shouting out "ENOUGH! If you don't like it, then you can leave. If you can't handle my decision than you don't deserve to be here."

Ino felt her spirits drop as she saw team after team giving up. A few singulars genin gave up bringing their team down. 'All these guys are just giving up. What if one of us gets it wrong? I don't know if I can do this!'

As Ino debated on whether or not she can keep going, she saw something that broke her heart…..Naruto was slowly raising his hand 'Naruto-kun? He….he's giving up?'

~Hinata~

Hinata was having similar thoughts on the exam 'I don't think Kiba or Shino will fail this and I should be ok. But what if I get it wrong? I'll end up holding them back and we will be stuck as genin forever! I can't do that to them!'. After a second she turned to her right to see Naruto raising his hand 'Naruto-kun?...he couldn't be!'. Hinata felt saddened to see Naruto do something that he has never done before. He was giving up

~Naruto~

Naruto had heard that if he got this wrong, not only will he be kicked out of the exam he will never be able to advance in rank again, but something caught his attention 'he's lying! But why is he telling us this? Is he trying to scare…I'm an idiot! Anko-neechan told me when she brought me to the interrogation department that one time that Scarface loves to mess with people's heads and it's working…..that's just mean', Naruto could feel the fear and Uncertainty coming from many of the participants but the ones that got him the most were coming from Hinata and Ino. 'Are they afraid to fail? To let their teams down, but why? They are both amazing shinobi'. Naruto could feel the doubt increase in both of them and it hurt him to think that they might give up 'I have to do something!'. Getting an idea he began to slowly raise his hand 'I hope this helps!'

Every one of the Rookie nine, including Tenten and Lee were looking at Naruto as he raised his hand. They all knew that he was someone that never quiet even when he was down. They all saw it back in the academy, when he was beaten down in a taijutsu match, he would get back on his feet even when he was all bruised. When trying ninjutsu, he would practice non stop and he would never stop. Giving up was something they never thought Naruto would do and now he was doing just that

They all jumped when Naruto slammed his hand down

"I don't care! I became a genin through field promotion. I will keep getting better until they have no choice but to promote me and if I never become a chunin I will keep getting stronger no matter what stands in my way! So go ahead and give us the question! I'll keep moving forward!" Naruto said with so much determination in his voice that the rest of the rookies gained smiles on their faces and most had the same thought in their head as well as everyone else

'Bring it on!'

Ibiki stared at the blonde before turning his gaze at the remaining genin. He could see that the outburst brought some more backbone to them 'I don't know whether to hate this kid of admire him'. Ibiki looked at the chunin lining the walls as they all nodded their head. Looking back to the genin 'twenty six teams, way more than I expected but no one else seems to be ready to leave. Damn that kid heh'. Well since none of you looked ready to leave I just have one thing to say….congratulations YOU ALL PASS"

The silence that followed was maddening to Ibiki. He expected immediate shouts or questions but nothing. For a thirty seconds everyone was quiet until the suna Kunoichi stood up "what do you mean we pass? What about the tenth question?!"

Ibiki smiled 'there's the reaction I was waiting for' "you staying here was the answer to the tenth question"

Naruto felt all his nerves relax a bit at hearing that they will continue on to the next stage of the exam. He felt even more relieved when he felt the doubt that Ino and Hinata had diminished after his declaration but something was nagging him in the back of his head. He tried to think about it as Ibiki was talking about not having the option to back out of a dangerous mission and how there will always be risks in a mission that were bigger than what they originally thought. Looking at Ibiki he remembered how Anko would say that when he was teaching something he would always have a hidden message in his actions. He smiled at this and how Anko had a weird quirk on how…..she…..would….. 'Thaaaat's what it was'

After Ibiki re-tied his bandana on his head he was about to continue on to congratulate them but stopped when he saw Naruto get up "what do you think your doing?"

Naruto just walked to the windows of the room and asked the chunin standing there to move for a moment. Confused the chunin did so and Naruto began to open all the windows as wide as they could go.

Ibiki just stared at the boy in confusion and would have said something but he saw the boy duck under the windows in time to dodge something flying through one of them.

The object opened up to reveal a tarp and two kunai with wire attached to two edges to let it hang. Out of the tarp came Anko giving a one eyed grin and the peace sign, and on the tarp was a message in big bold letters

[The Sexy single unstoppable Anko Mitarashi

Second proctor of the chunin exams]

"Alright all you maggots, don't celebrate just yet cause the second part starts NOW!"

For the second time in fifteen minutes everyone was shocked silent. Anko kept her pose until she heard someone speak

"Anko-nee-chan, I think you did it again"

Turning to the right Anko saw Naruto sitting on the floor by the windows "Gaki? I didn't do it again!"

Ibiki, who was behind the tarp moved it to show half his face "Anko, your early again"

Anko felt sheepish and gave a nervous chuckle as she looked back to the genin. Her eyes widened a bit at the sight "twenty six teams?! Your losing your touch grumpy scarface"

'Damn these two' "or maybe we have a better group of potentials this year"

Gaining an evil grin she looked towards the genin "doesn't matter. After I'm done with them, more than half of them will be out of these exams

Everyone felt their spirits drop again and could only think

'Now what?'

End of Chapter

Poll to choose what Naruto's fighting style is called is up on my profile

As I have pointed out at the very top, I skipped some bits to show other points of view. I just felt that Naruto fans who have seen the show, read the manga or other fics. The Ibiki tenth question bit is repetitive and you should all know what happens. I just showed what others were going through

Also I'm pretty sure a lot of you figured out what happened in the mindscape and who that was. Just to let you know he will appear again. Not sure exactly when but he will

OK to everyone. I will be going back to earlier chapters and fixing a lot of problems in them. I will be starting from the first chapter and working my way up. This will mean that the chapter 24 will take longer to come out