"Oh my god, Sasuke and Naruko what happened to you." Ino Yamanaka gushed as she ran up up to his teammates and began gushing over Sasuke. "Some kid beat us with only his fists." Sasuke replied as Ino gushed over his bruises and scrapes, "Thanks for the care." Naruko called until she felt a gentle wrapping around her arm and saw Kou gently bandaging her arm.
She jumped back blushing bright red, "Baka I heal fast because of the fox I don't need medical attention." Kou looked at her confused, "But didn't you just say?" "No I didn't say anything you must have imagined it." Kou tilted his head curiously before a voice rang out interrupting them, "Naruko what are you doing with the dead last?" Kiba Inuzuka's voice rang out as he sneered at Kou, the Kiri Brat." Before Naruko or Sasuke could stop him, his bunshin faded away and Kiba felt cold steel at his neck. "Call me that again and you won't live to start the exam. The moment was tense before Kou lowered his kunai and shunshined back to his team he heard "You know for a bunch of rookies you sure are loud." a white haired said as he began walking towards them. He was interrupted by the lights going off and a tall man with a bandanna and scars looming over them at the front of the room.
"My name is Ibiki Morino and I'll be your proctor for the exams.", he announced, He began to explain the rules of cheating and if you're caught five times you're out, this odd rule set of warning bells in Kou's head, he then finished by explaining the tenth question would come at the end. Ibiki began to pass out the tests, when Kou got a good first look at the test his jaw dropped. These were questions that no average genin would understand and as he surveyed the room he saw only a few genin that weren't struggling. He looked over Naruko and saw her stealthily copying from Hinata Hyuuga. He looked over to Sasuke and watched him copy the hand movements of a kid near him with his sharingan.
He nervously sat and tried to answer before everything he had seen hit him, they wanted him to cheat, the only question was how? He looked over and saw Kiba next to him with his dog Akamaru barking answers to him. When they noticed him looking they both growled towards him.
A plan began to formulate in his head as he waited for Kiba to finish his questions. He reached into his pack and pulled a kunai with a smoke bomb on it. He began to twirl it and watched as a chunin hurl a kunai at it. He let the smoke bomb explode and waited for the chaos to set in before grabbing Kiba's paper and writing his name on it.
The smoke dissipated as the chunins opened the window and the smoke cleared. "You there." Do you know the damage you could've caused." Ibiki yelled at Kou while inwardly smirking, 'This kid might be chunin material after all." He thought before sitting back down and watching the genin.
Five Minutes earlier
Observation Room
"Kakashi, do you really think Kou can become a chunin?" Kurenai asked as Gai and Asuma watched the genin dubiously. "Just you wait Kou has a lot of tricks up his sleave." Kakashi reassured them before looking towards Kou with a bead of sweat lining his face. 'Don't let me down for all the tests I've put you through I still believe in you.' He watched Kou sit motionless before pulling down his mask and exposing his Sharingan. He watched Kou wait patiently for Kiba to finish scribbling before pulling out a kunai with a smoke bomb on it. "Watch this." He called out to the other Jounin as the room erupted in smoke and when it cleared they watched Kiba stare in shock at his blank paper.
"Kakashi did you teach him that?" Gai asked in shock at what he had just seen while Kurenai had a tense jaw at her genin just being humiliated. All the jounin in the room except Kurenai had a good laugh at Kiba's outraged yells and indignant cries. They sat and watched as Ibiki asked the tenth question, the smiled in pride when none of their genin left the room, and they laughed as Naruko delivered her inspiring speech. "Well that's my cue." Anko announced as she stood up. "Aren't you a little early?" They all asked with a sweatdrop but she was already gone.
As Ibiki was in the middle of explaining what it meant to be a chunin a clothed bundle burst through a window and a banner was pinned on to the wall reading, The Sexy and Single proctor Anko Mitarashi has arrived. A woman with a pineapple style haircut with a trench coat and a mesh body suit underneath before she yelled, "Meet me at training ground forty-four in five minutes." Then proceeding to shunshin away. Kou made eye contact with Naruko and Sasuke before they began shunshining away too.
When they reached the training ground they saw a few teams milling around waiting for instructions. They scoped out the competition and a few ninja stood out, a lone female genin from Kusa , a red headed boy from Suna with a kanji for love on his face, and a team from Ame with breathers. When most of the teams had appeared Anko began explaining the second test. "You'll get either a heaven or earth scroll and try to take the other on from another team and get to the tower in five days those are the only rules. Grab a scroll and get to a gate when the buzzer sounds you can go." Kou noticed Naruko not paying attention and kicked her in the shin, snapping her back to attention.
Anko began hurling scrolls Sasuke grabbed theirs before they walked to a gate and prepared. The buzzer sounded and the gate shot upwards as they leaped into the dark forest. They ran up into the trees and raced north-west until the reached a stream they ran parallel to it. About three miles away they watched an explosion light up the cloudy sky.
They ran to the spot of the explosion and saw the team from Ame panting hard with three bodies beneath them holding a heaven and earth scroll. Kou took charge "Naruko take right, Sasuke take middle, and I'll take right." He began counting down with his fingers Three...Two...One! They exploded out of the trees Kou shunshined behind the boy and chopped his neck knocking him out. Naruko chose to hit the boy in multiple areas with her clones to knock him out. Sasuke simple looked the poor genin in the eye and used his left eye with the two tomoe to put him a genjutsu.
Kou watched in curiosity as Sasuke tossed them to Naruko and she put them in her pocket before they disappeared while Sasuke still held one, "There are storage seals in her pocket that will hold them so if we get ambushed and we lose the one we still have the two we need to pass." Sasuke explained as soon as they were hidden in the trees again. Kou looked at the scroll and smirked as he motioned for Sasuke to hand it over. "I can add explosives so it explodes and frags shuriken when opened and I'll carry it so don't worry." He said as they all smirked, one more tool to win with. Kou slipped ninja wire shuriken and explosives inside. "The shuriken will shoot out to a range of fifteen meters before the wire pulls them back in to center to impale who ever uses it." He said as they looked at him quite impressed by how quickly he put it together.
They began shunshining and leaping through the trees avoiding fights, when they were about five miles away a massive white snake barreled into Naruko taking her faraway from the soon to be , "Kukuku let's play." The female genin from Kusa laughed before dodging a strike from Kou who'd already shunshined behind him. "Oh Kou my heart bleeds for you, you're just the filler of team seven." The Kusa nin laughed before being engulfed with flames Kou and Sasuke cautiously watched as the flames took shape and the Kusa nin looked to be melting as she opened her mouth wider than and another figure tumbled out. Almost instantly Kou and Sasuke recognized him one of the biggest traitors of Konoha only after Madara Uchiha. "Orochimaru." Sasuke growled as they charged at him.
Swipe Sasuke swung a kunai and Orochimaru ducked he hurled Sasuke into a tree before charging at him. Kou grabbed Sasuke and threw him out of the way before shunshining away. Orochimaru melted into mud before appearing behind Sasuke and pummeling him into the ground and temporarily knocking him out before he charged at Kou. Kou shunshined away and Orochimaru followed aware of a trap but curious enough to play along.
Kou tossed Orochimaru the left over earth scroll and held up a hand seal, "Kai." He screamed as the scroll in Orochimaru's hand blew up and the shuriken shot out. He let the smoke waft through the air as he henged into a leaf and watched the chaos below. He smirked before hearing a soft chuckling and feeling a unbelievable seering pain on his left shoulder. He fell to the ground before losing consciousness he heard Orochimaru say, "You got some skills, I can't wait to see what you've become, the seal won't eat away at you remember the gift. Kukukuku." He said before melting into the dirt.