Chapter Seven
Yo! It's time for the seventh chapter my bros! The chunin exams take off in full swing!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does. If I did random Konoha nin would be prevalent.
"Konohamaru! Are you alright!?" Naruto yelled running to get around the corner before Sakura could really hurt the boy. As he turned it though he saw something he hadn't expected. What greeted him was Sakura standing stunned in the street. And a older boy who held Konohamaru up by the collar of his shirt. Naruto was not happy to see that. "Hey! What the fuck are you doing?"
The older boy scoffed, "this brat ran into me and I'm gonna teach him a lesson."
"Put him down. Now." Naruto commanded.
"What are you gonna do if I don't?" The guy said arrogantly.
Only then did Naruto by pure natural speed appear inside the man's guard, holding his kunai to the man's throat. "I'm not going to ask again."
"I didn't even see him move!" The older boy thought dropping the kid. Naruto disappeared and reappeared next to Sakura holding Konohamaru, who he then set down.
"Kono...run along. I'll catch up with you later." Naruto said in a no nonsense voice.
"Yes sir, big brother Naruto!" With that the youngster ran off as fast as he could.
"You two, you're here for the chunin exams right?" The blond asked.
"We are. But I'm gonna kick your ass right here for that stunt you just pulled!" The teenager reached for the bandaged item on his back. When suddenly a rock hit him in the head, thrown from behind him. When he turned to look, his eyes were met with the blood red Sharingan of Konohagakure's last Uchiha.
"A, you couldn't touch Naruto if you tried. And B, random fighting inside the village is prohibited, especially right now." The black haired boy said.
"Hey! You! Don't be trying to sneak up behind Sasuke like that!" Naruto yelled pointing behind the boy in the tree. With that a figure walked out, most notable feature being the kanji for love etched into his forehead.
"Kankuro. You're a disgrace to the village." The figure said.
"Well you see Gaara it's like thi-..."
"Shut up or I'll kill you." The redhead cut him off.
"You're all shinobi from Sunagakure, correct?" Naruto asked. "Here for the exams?"
"Yes we are." The girl answered. "Are you taking them as well?"
"Indeed." Naruto said, his eyes then narrowing as he looked at Gaara. "You, what's your name?"
"They call me Gaara of the Desert. What's your's?"
"Uzumaki Naruto."
"I hope we get to fight, you too Uchiha." And with that the three sand shinobi left.
"Guys." Naruto shook his head. "If you face him at all, especially without help, run immediately. You'll die if you don't."
"What do you mean run, Naruto?" Sasuke asked.
"I could feel his chakra the whole time. He's just like me. And since he's from Sunagakure, I'd say he's the Jinchuriki of the One Tails."
"Another Jinchuriki?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, it's likely I'll end up facing him. Either me or Sasuke, maybe even you Sakura. I'd rather both of you forfeit immediately if facing him, but I can't force you. Just make sure you're content with dying." The blond sighed.
"Kami Naruto, is it that bad?" Sasuke asked.
"S'ke you know I'd never tell you to back down from a fight, so yeah it's that bad. As your friend and teammate I'm begging you to not fight him if at all possible." Naruto was staring at the ground as they walked now.
"Alright it's settled. If I can absolutely avoid it I won't fight him." Replied the Uchiha.
"Agreed." The pinkette confirmed her adherence to the request.
"Thank you."
A light breeze blew outside the front door to the academy. The three chunin hopefuls stepped inside and made there way up the stairs. They all tapped each other on the arm at the detection of the genjutsu set a upon the door to room 201, that made it read 301. They silently walked by and continued up the stairs. As they prepared to enter the doorway, Naruto and Sasuke made a decision. Sakura turned the handle slightly and stepped back, and Naruto booted the door open hard enough for it to bounce as it impacted the wall on which it was mounted. He then channeled the slightest bit of the fox's chakra, and he and Sasuke absolutely decimated the room with killing intent. And the whole time they were grinning like idiots.
Flashback
"Hey duck butt?"
"What do you want loser?"
"I think we should make an entrance that says don't fuck with us."
"What do you mean Uzumaki?" The raven haired boy asked.
"I mean let's use our killing intent to scare the fuck out of as many of these teams as we can, I'll channel a bit of the fox's."
"Hmmm… If Sakura's okay with it then yeah."
"This'll be awesome y'know!" The Uzumaki cheered.
"Hn."
Flashback end
The entire room full of teams began to try to focus their combined killing intent on Team Seven, just as it began to overpower the murderous feeling Sasuke and Naruto gave off, Naruto made a power move and channeled even more of the Nine Tails' chakra. This completely overpowered everything the other teams had, and they all turned away from the glares of Team Seven muttering amongst themselves about dangerous Konoha nin.
"You two really are unbelievable you know that right?" Sakura asked bored, she had long since gotten used to Naruto and Sasuke using this combination of killing intent since they had experienced Zabuza's in wave country.
Some of the foreign nin were completely stunned by how she was seemingly unaffected. Painting her as not being a weak point for the team.
"Heh...uh hey guys, hope that's not gonna turn on us?" Kiba said approaching from the corner, where it seemed all the teams from there graduating class were situated.
"We're saving it for the real competition, Mutt." Sasuke replied.
"What'd you call me Uchiha!?"
"You heard me."
Sakura interjected, "Sasuke quit, it's annoying."
At that the rookie nine were all visibly stunned. She looked at them blankly, "what?"
"Uh nothing sorry." Kiba replied.
"Impressive display. But that's going to attract a lot of attention, and the rest of you are being very loud." A new Konohagakure genin said walking up to the group. He had come from a separate group of Konoha hopefuls across the room.
"Yeah well at least most know not to fuck with us," said Sasuke rounding on the new comer. "And who exactly are you?"
"Im Kabuto, I've taken this exam a couple of times. Figured I could give advice to you all."
"A couple of times?" Kiba asked. "Doesn't that mean you suck considering you haven't passed?" While this was going on, Sasuke was now struggling with Naruto's help to get Ino to let him go after she had jumped on him. Finally separating them it was Naruto's turn to put forward a question.
"Got any info on any of the genin here?
"Yeah I do, I've got it all here on my ninja info cards. Who do you want to know about?"
"Gaara of the Desert." Naruto said.
Kiba jumped in suddenly, "Uzumaki Naruto, And Uchiha Sasuke."
Kabuto laughed. "You make it too easy knowing their names, Gaara of the Desert. Zero D-ranks, thirty C-ranks, fourteen B-ranks, and five A-ranks. Wow that's unheard of for a genin. Oh! And it says he's never gotten a single scratch on a mission. He also has control over sand for offense and defense."
"Uzumaki Naruto. Five hundred and forty six D-ranks! They haven't even been genin for a year! Even being D-ranks that's still impressive. Two C-rank missions, one B-Rank and one A-rank. Multiple high level jutsu and unusually high speed." Kabuto laughed, "Wow not bad for such a short career history."
"Thanks." Naruto said deep in thought, no one should know about the B-rank, that was supposed to be a secret.
"Uchiha Sasuke. Same mission history as Naruto seeing as they share a team, but Sasuke has no B-Rank, meaning Naruto did one alone? Sasuke has quite a few Fire style jutsu under his belt and is no pushover in taijutsu either. Both he and Naruto shared the title of rookie of the year." The glasses wearing boy stood. "Well that's all I got."
"Anything on the other villages here?" Asked Sakura.
"Well out of the big five only Sunagakure is participating, other wise there's a team from Takigakure, along with Kusagakure, and Amegakure. Otogakure is also here but their a relatively new village, and not much is known about them." Kabuto explained to the group.
Upon hearing this a group from Oto approached. "Hey! I'll show you the power of Otogakure right now, we'll be one of the strongest villages soon!" A bandage covered genin yelled. He charged at Kabuto, and just as he was making to swing his gauntlet covered arm at the Konoha nin, Naruto appeared in between them. Landing in a handstand he planted his foot in the Oto nins chest, pushing off he grabbed Kabuto with his other arm and disappeared. Reappearing across the room, the blond spoke.
"Maybe you'll be stronger soon, but you're still a minor village, might be a bad idea to go pissing off the big five right away. Wouldn't wanna get squashed before having a chance to grow." His grin never left his lips, Kakashi's training to increase his speed to unnatural proportions was one of the best terrible things he ever put himself through.
The Oto nin looked positively livid, but a commanding voice broke through the air. "Any fighting in this room from here on out is prohibited, and punishable by disqualification!" A man with a scared face wearing a black trench coat said, having just appeared in the room. Alongside him was a set of chunin. "I'm Ibiki Morino, I will be your proctor for the first test." He growled, "the first exam is a written one. Anyone caught cheating more than six times will fail alongside their team, your test scores will be collective so if one of your teammates fails your still out. This will be a two hour test. After the time limit a tenth and final question will be given. Now take your damn seats and get ready!"
The genin that filled the room began taking seats and tests were handed out by chunin once the examines were seated. "Alright the test begins now!" The scared man called out.
Naruto looked at his test. They were extremely advanced questions, most genin wouldn't know the answers to any of them, he was glad for Iruka's insistence on him learning more advanced math and physics problems. He knew Sakura would be smart enough to answer all the questions, but what of him and Sasuke? "I see! They want us to cheat, they're testing out ability to gather information without getting caught." The Uzumaki caught on quick. He now knew Sasuke would use his Sharingan, but what of himself? He got a crazy idea, he wasn't sure if it would work but he figured he'd give it a shot.
The boy proceeded to "accidentally" knock over his water. Quickly picking up the bottle and trying to look flustered, he began to focus on putting his chakra into the water now on the desk, it slowly evaporated, condensation building on the ceiling above the boy. He manipulated his chakra in the water to get the condensation to turn to a big droplet that then flattened, and turned into an almost perfect mirror surface. From there he kicked his feet up on the desk, leaning back in his chair with his hands on his head. He watched others fill out their tests from the mirror, and once he had all the answers stuffed into his mind he began to fill out his own.
The chunin began striking out team after team until the time was up. All that were remaining was the rookie nine, Kakashi-sensei's self proclaimed rival's team, and four more Konoha teams, including Kabuto's. Along with that were the two Otogakure teams, two Sunagakure teams, two Amegakure teams, and a three Kusagakure teams.
"Alright! Times up!" The big man yelled. "Now! You must decide if you want to take the Tenth question, if you don't you will fail the test."
"What? Then of course we'd take the question!" The Suna girl yelled.
He glared at her for interrupting him. "However if you take the Tenth question, and get it wrong, you will never be allowed to take the chunin exams again!"
"What?!" Kiba yelled, "but there's people here who have taken the exams before!"
"I guess you're just unlucky to have me as your proctor. If you choose to not take the question, you will fail but you will have the chance to take the test again next year." The man explained. "Now if you're not gonna take it get out!"
A Suna team, and a Kusa team both got up and left, and some of the other teams seemed to have their resolve wavering. However when Naruto saw some of the Rookie Nine wavering he figured it best to take a precautionary measure. Slamming his hand onto the table he stood. "Oi! I can be genin and never make jounin! But I'll still become Hokage one day! I'll surpass the Fourth and all the other Hokage!"
"Tough talk." Ibiki said, looking around the room he noticed that the boy's words had steeled the resolve of all the genin left. "Is that your final answer?" No team moved an inch. "Alright then, you pass."
"What!?" Came the scattered yells of many of the genin.
"The goal of the tenth question is to see if you have the guts to be a chunin. The ability to be courageous and survive any hardship… These are the abilities needed to become a chūnin captain. Those who can't put their destinies on the line… who cling to the uncertain future of "there's always next year"… and walk away from their chance… those pieces of trash who can only make such cowardly choices do not deserve to become chūnin! He removed his bandanna, showing his head full of scars. Some genin audibly gasped. "So-.."
A window bust open, and kunai with a large banner attached impacted the wall interrupting the scared man. The banner read the sexy and single Mitarashi Anko. "Ibiki!" The girl who had stolen the show yelled. "You let this many pass?!"
"Anko….you're early."
"No matter! I'll cut that number in half." She licked her lips and a few genin gulped. "Alright shit stains, meet me at training ground forty four in an hour."
"Prepare to start!" A chunin yelled as the genin stood at the gates. "Go!" The gates were opened and the test was on. Team Seven was in need of an Earth scroll. They entered the forest quickly, and got as far inside as possible before stopping. Naruto quickly made fifteen water clones who set up a perimeter. Sasuke and Sakura began overwatch, and Naruto crouched down and placed his finger to the ground. Kakashi having seen Naruto's sensor ability being seemingly in tune with his fathers, worked to have Naruto refine and perfect this skill. He could now sense chakra over a range of a mile, just by placing his finger to the ground.
"Okay an Ame team is actually trying to sneak up on us right now, they're due east. Let's do it quick." Naruto said taking off with Sakura and Sasuke in tow.
"Right." They said. As much as Sasuke hated to admit it Naruto made a good team leader. His strategies were almost unmatched as well. They quickly found the Ame team and before anyone could blink, Sasuke and Sakura had them all under a genjutsu, and Naruto sent his water clones in to dispatch the enemy as to be prepared for any traps. Finding none and knocking out the team, Naruto's clones waved the all clear signal. Jumping down they found the team did indeed possess an Earth scroll.
"Let's knock out a few more teams on the way to the tower?" Sasuke suggested.
"It couldn't hurt. Might lessen the competition for later." Naruto replied
"I don't know about you two but I'd like to set a record time." Sakura said. At that moment a gust of wind more powerful than anything Naruto had experienced in his life ripped through the trees, uprooting them as it went and blasting the team apart. Naruto had no idea what hit them.
Sasuke awoke. He heard screaming. It was a girl, "Sakura?" He thought with worry. "No that's not her.." it was coming from off to his right.
"Help me!" Came the screams.
Sasuke ran over and found a giant bear moving to make a mid day meal out of the redhead on the ground. Said bear was quickly fried by a fire jutsu and Sasuke called out, "go fine an examiner! Sorry I gotta go, my team needs me!" With that he was gone.
Sakura awoke, and she was mad, whatever had hit them really spoiled her mood. She was by no means happy. She heard a commotion through the trees, she then neared the source of the sound. Upon peaking through the dense foliage cover she saw the Suna team Naruto had been so worried about. And now she saw why. She watched as the guy with the gourd wrapped sand around the Ame team confronting him. And she watched as he turned their bodies to paste. She immediately bailed and when off in the direction her and her teammates had last been together.
Naruto woke up, something hurt, a lot. He heard a noise but it was unusual. "Sounds like a medical jutsu?" He thought groggily. His eyes fluttered open, only to see a pair of soft green eyes staring back at him.
"Shh stay down your arm is broken. I'm a Konoha nin too it's alright." The girl said. She had shoulder length black hair that graduated to dark red at the tips.
"What happened?" Naruto asked.
"We heard a huge crash from in front of us. When we came to investigate we found you here." A boy behind the girl said. Actually there were two boys. They were identical.
"Shit I'm seeing double." Naruto muttered.
The girl giggled. "No silly, there's two of them, identical twins."
"Hey that's pretty cool y'know!" Naruto said slightly excited, but clapped his hands over his mouth at letting the verbal tic out in front of these new people. The girl giggled again.
Looking at him she smiled. "Arms all good now!"
He stood slowly and punched his hand into his fist. "Alright! Thanks for the help, but I gotta go find my team!"
"Do you want help?" One boy asked.
"Nah, you guys have an exam to pass." He smiled, "I never did get your names?"
"Kasahara Roku" one of the boys said.
"Kasahara Aiko" the second followed up.
"I'm Takarada Ryuko, it's a please to meet you mister…?" The girl finished for the group.
"Uzumaki Naruto! You're future Hokage at your service." He said bowing dramatically, causing the girl to giggle again. "Well anyway I gotta go." And then he disappeared. Leaving the team baffled.
Welp that's a wrap! Hope your ready to find out where that blast of wind came from. ;) Anyways, that's all for now folks! Darling in the Fox out!