Disclaimer: I own the OCs in this fic, the rest is Masashi Kishomoto's. Sorry for any spelling mistakes.

Character age:

Akane, Itachi: 18

Naruto, Sasuke: 12

Shisui: 21

Kakashi: 26

Sakura widened her eyes as Haku was sent in a tree. One of their opponent had expelled compressed air from his hands. It was only one of them too, there was another boy and a girl.

"We're here to kill Uchiha Sasuke, nothing more," the bandaged one droned. Sakura frowned.

"What, after Orochimaru it's you!? What did Sasuke-kun do to you people!?" The three of the Sound twitched. Sakura shot a look at her only ally and she bit her lip. Haku's shoulder was bleeding, as if a wound had been reopened. His teammates were still down. The fight they had been involved in before they helped her had drained them.

"Dozu, we kill her too?" the girl asked the mummy.

"Yes, she knows too much. We kill those from Kiri too." They charged at her and she forced herself to get a kunai, the muscles in her arm screaming at her to rest. They never made it to her as someone kicked them away. "Who are you?"

"Konoha's beautiful green beast, Rock Lee!" He turned to Sakura. "Sakura-san, please rest, I will take care of them."

As for the other fight, Haku was trying to ignore the pain in his shoulder. One of the girl's attack, based of wind, had cut him. He had tried to fix it as much as he could but that guy made it bleed once again. Plus, be it senbon or taijutsu, he could deflect everything with the air he was expelling from his open palms.

"Is that all Kiri has!? I was expecting more!"

Haku needed water. He needed to plug the ducts. He needed to focus on the arms. A look at Sakura-san and the fight of the green shinobi told him he was on his own.

"Hey Haku, you completely mastered the technique I taught you , right?"

"Yes," he replied to Uzu, who mused over it.

"Okay, I'll give you a choice. Or we try to get to your wind chakra right now and I teach you the only real offensive technique I know, or we make you reinforce your water technique."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, wind chakra is actually hard to control. A lot of people use it to sharpen their weapon." She took two regular kunai from the holster on her right thigh and gave him one. "We'll throw them at the tree at three. One, two, three!" They did, her kunai going through the tree easily as his was stuck in it. "See what I mean?"

"Yes. Do you want me to mix some wind chakra to the Wild Water Wave?"

"Yep. It's very high-level for regular shinobi. But you have an Ice Release, you've been mixing the two for ever. Put more water than wind chakra in your technique and bam! Your technique gets as destructive as Suigetsu's Water Gun Technique. So, which one do you want?"

"The last option. I think if I can control my wind chakra enough to do that, the rest should be easier."

"Let's start with the most difficult then."

He didn't want to kill or hurt his opponent too much, but his technique was hard to block. He couldn't be at full speed either because he was still tired. If he could put the good amount of wind chakra in the Wild Water Wave technique, without turning it in ice, then he could reach the ducts and then freeze it inside. He jumped on the side to dodge, again, and again. Then he stopped and faced Zaku, the Dragon, Tiger and Hare seals already done. He felt water coming, and as it was in his mouth, he infused wind chakra in it. He stopped just before he felt the water cooling too much and spit it. The water jet was more compacted.

"As if it would work!" He used his technique but the water went through, making him widened his eyes. It went inside his left palm and a cry of pain was heard when water pierced through his shoulder. Haku took this opportunity to run to him and make him unconscious with senbon, even if he did something to the earth just before with his valid arm. That Zaku never saw it coming. He had been overconfident, Uzu told him it was the biggest weakness a shinobi could display.

The Yuki boy turned to the other fight. If the one in green spandex was exhausted next to the 'chief', the latter was on a rise of earth.

"I was almost done," the Sound nin said as he got up, surprising the green one. He looked at them and frowned at the unconscious form of his teammate, two senbon in his neck. "Kin!" he said as he charged at the green one and used his sound wave to incapacitate him.

"Busy!" Indeed, she was busy strangling Sakura on the ground. Haku barely made a move to go than the lack of chakra in him made his world spin a little. However, Sakura, even though she started to lack oxygen, managed to grab two vials from her pouch and stuck them in Kin's thigh. She moved back immediately. "What did you...argh!" She started to puke and Sakura rolled away from it, gasping for air. Once it was stable, she smirked at the sick kunoichi.

"I have a teammate who doesn't think twice about eating what he finds in nature. I had to have something to clean his stomach. It's just emetic. A strong dose to make you throw up too much to stay conscious afterward."

Dosu looked at his team. They were in a bad situation. He never though the only team from Kiri would ally with the team they were supposed to attack, and only one of them was up.

"Take your teammate and leave," a new voice snarled next to Sakura.

"Sasuke-kun, you're awake!" she cried out with relief. Sasuke looked all around him and then grabbed some shuriken to throw them at Dosu.

"I won't repeat myself."

"I will for now," he agreed and put a scroll down, "but next time we won't lose." He grabbed the other two Sound ninja and disappeared. Sasuke took the Scroll of Earth.

"That was a fight! Too bad we didn't have the time to be in it, we would have make it even faster! Hi Sasuke-kun!" Sakura looked at Ino in surprise, even though she could see the blonde was lying. Shikamaru and Chouji were making that pretty clear too just by their faces.

"Sakura, rest and you'll tell us what we missed when Naruto wakes up." Sasuke told her, eyeing her up and down, which made her blush. She followed Sasuke's gaze toward Kiri, where all the members of the team were awake now. Chōjūrō was supporting Haku whereas the other one was drinking.

"It's fine Sasuke-kun, they helped me moving you and Naruto. I would be dead if it wasn't for them." Sakura whispered to the Uchiha, who grunted is response. "Sasuke-kun, bring me Lee-san please."

After a few minutes, Lee's team came to pick him up, Shikamaru and Chouji woke Naruto up as Ino was checking her injuries. From the corner of her eyes, she saw the Kiri team getting ready to leave.

"Haku-san! Chōjūrō-san!" Said boys turned around. "Thank you for your help." Haku smiled at her and Chōjūrō blushed to the tip of his ears. Then, they disappeared, right when Naruto woke up.

"I had the best sleep!" Naruto said as he stretched like a cat. He raised a sheepish look on the boys of Team Ten. "What are you doing here?"

"We ended up watching the fight and we woke you up, idiot," Shikamaru replied lazily, "Go ask Sakura for more explanations, she's pretty much the only one on your team to have fought those guys from the Sound."

Naruto blinked at him and slowly turned his gaze to his team. They were fighting a man and next thing he knew Sakura fought against a full team? He got up and went to her, who was trying to use the healing seal his aunt gave her on Sasuke, who kept telling her he was fine.

"Sakura-chan, what happened?"

"Lots of things Naruto, lots of things," she answered him with a tired smile, "you and Sasuke-kun have been sleeping since yesterday evening."

"I had a great night though," Suigetsu repeated for the fifth time.

"You should have woken us up," Chōjūrō said as he was helping Haku walking, "you did get hurt too yesterday."

"I know, but I was in the best shape," he whispered and swallowed a soldier pill. "I'll rest at the tower, it's the second day and we won't move until the fifth one."

"Let's hurry then!" That got Suigetsu's raised eyebrows. "What? No way I'm staying any longer in that forest with those Sand guys and Orochimaru lurking around!"

"Oh, so when he's scarred he is fast." Chōjūrō chuckled at Haku's remark.

On the way, they helped a red-haired girl from Kusa against a bear. More like Haku did and Suigetsu complained about it. They reached the tower at the end of the second day. In front of them was a riddle.

"If you do not possess Heaven, gain knowledge and be prepared. If you do not possess Earth, run through the fields and seek strength. If you open both Heaven and Earth scrolls, dangerous paths turn into safe path. This is the secret of something, it shall lead you on the way." Chōjūro read slowly. "There's a word missing."

"Who cares, they're asking to open these damn scrolls!" Suigetsu yelled, taking the two to open them. They started to glow and he threw them away. A puff of smoke later a chuunin appeared.

"Welcome, and congratulations. You've finished the Second Exam." Tension left all of them. "Now..."

"Hey, if it's over can we rest?"

"Show respect Suigetsu!" a feminine voice said from above. The whole team raised their eyes to meet their sensei's smirk and waving. "You look like you've been through hell." She body flickered in front of them and glanced at the chuunin over her shoulder. "Do you wish for me to take over Kotetsu-san? I know how to handle them."

"Of course," he grumbled and left them. Uzu clapped.

"Now, now, two days out of five, congrats. What do you think is the missing word?"

"Dunno, don't care."

"The point of the Chuunin Exams is to test our capacities to be chuunin. So is it the missing word?" Haku droned on, clearly exhausted.

"And we have a winner! That's something the Hokage came up with. Heaven is your mind, Earth is your body, train them both and you'll be great chuunin. Okay, now follow me! We have a lot of talking to do. And it looks like you want to rest and drink a lot."

Indeed, before their talk, Suigetsu drank around three liters of water, almost in one go.

"I should call you 'Team Trouble', running into all the persons I didn't want you to run into," I sighed and rubbed the back of my head. "I must be rubbing off on you. Anyway, Haku you can rest in a bed now. As the exam is still running for three days, you can't see a medic and I can't help you either. You're pretty much still on your own, even if fighting with other teams in the tower is prohibited."

"Why are we talking then?" Chōjūro asked me. I raised a finger in front of him and pointed it at him.

"That, dear student of mine, is because you ran into an S-rank missing-nin. You used the seal and the Hokage asked me to see him and tell him why you had one to begin with. Yagura had anticipated that possibility, and I told him Orochimaru was an enemy of the Mist and we had Intel. He wanted me to hear your report. They basically know we have a mission. Anyway, you were right to intervene. Who knew what he would have done to Sasuke." What would have happened knowing he had his family here though? "I'll be going then."

I left their room and went back to the one for the jounin. Haku could have easily taken care of these three from the Sound if it hadn't been for their fight with the Sand. They must have guessed he was a jinchuriki though. They all saw Yagura, Utakata-senpai was always at the hideout, and Haku witnessed a weakening in Kurama's seal during his fight on the bridge. Now we had to wait until the end of the Second Exam. Anbu were probably still examining the forest, I know they put a genjutsu around the zone of the attack to keep genin away but Orochimaru must have fled already. He would come back soon, that was for sure, but...

Let's look at the bright side: he didn't try to abduct Suigetsu again.

I would have to send a message to Yagura though.

And just like that, the three following days passed slowly. I worked on some seals derived from the Hiraishin and oji-chan would remind me he was still there and asked me to test stuff for him. We figured how to cut the connection though, and he knew I was busy, so he kept the talking to the bare minimum. But as for the 'security' for jinchuriki, we figured that if we could get an extract of the bijuu chakra and seal it in a different place in a jinchuriki's chakra as someone is being turned in a jinchuriki, it would avoid them death if the bijuu was extracted.

I was happy to have Minato backing me up though. I wouldn't be able to handle everything on my own. Still, there was a problem with what he came up with. It was to be done during the sealing. We needed to get an extract of the bijuu chakra. We needed to form the seal so that it would activate on its own if the bijuu was extracted. We needed to see if the jinchuriki could handle it.

I tilted my head back against the wall. I needed to put directional signs on my kunai with my markers too. I had to find the middle ground for the kunai to transfer the marker on whatever surface it was on and still adapt itself to the surface. I would see how to teleport others later. I could do it to Uma because he was one of my summon and our chakra were in perfect sync with each other already, because a small portion of my chakra was in him when I summoned him.

"The last team has arrived, the jounin responsible for the teams are reuniting in the sparring room," a chuunin told me and I nodded before following him. I found myself behind the Hokage with the others sensei. Kakashi was here, good, Kurenai-san, Gai-san and Asuma-san from Konoha. Then there was me , between Kakashi and the guy from the Sand, and Oto at the far right. I front of us, there were shinobi responsible for the Exam, but also Itachi who was wearing the standard jounin attire. It was weird to see him dressed like that to be honest. He probably was the Hokage's security detail. The genin arrived little by little and I noticed that Temari had a very bad bruise on her right leg and her ankle was bandaged, but they also were starring at my team, more precisely Suigetsu. Right, Gaara was supposed to have crushed him and here he was, casually drinking his water.

"First off, congratulations on passing the Second Exam." Anko started with an interested smirk on her face.

"Your team is pretty good," Gai-san admitted on the other side of Kakashi, "Perhaps they were lucky. But as long as my team is here they can't go any further. Since, in the next stage, personal abilities will be critical." Oh, perfect for my team. "Youth is sweet and sour, and sometimes strict, Kakashi."

"Hm? Did you say something?" I kept myself from snickering. Some things would just never, ever change.

"We will now have an explanation of the Third Exam from Hokage-sama! Everyone listen well!" Anko declared in her mic. She turned to the Hokage. "Hokage-sama, please do the honors."

"The Third Exam will start immediately. But before the explanation, there's one thing I want to make clear for all of you. It's about the purpose of this exam." He explained that it was a sort of war between countries in time of peace, because thinking it was just for friendship between Allied Nations was naive. Kiri and Konoha were close to war two years ago. As the Hokage finally reached the end of his explanation, someone landed in front of him.

"Excuse me Hokage-sama, I, Gekkou Hayate, will explain," the proctor said.

"Please do."

"Everyone, it's nice to meet you. Before the Third Exam, there is something," he coughed. He looked sick anyway. "I want you to do. Fight in preliminary matches to see who gets to advance to the Third Exam's main battle. As there is twenty-one of you, the person who won't get picked up will automatically pass, unless someone wants to give up."

Well, from the number of people and if the next Exam is a tournament, it was logical, and they even let the pressure of the fights for the one who won't actually fight. There was no raised hand though. After the explanations, I raised my eyes to the screen showing the names of the fighters. It passed over many names and stopped.

Uchiha Sasuke versus Yamanaka Ino.

Well...

"What!?" Ino shrieked and everybody around her plugged their ears. "I can't be fighting Sasuke-kun!"

"Everyone but the contestants, go to the balconies." Hayate told us and I smirked at Sasuke's frozen face. Physically fighting a fangirl was never on his to-do list I think, yet I bet he though about it before. But he also knew the gap between them, even if he looked more tired than Ino. Once I was with my team on the balcony where the foreign teams were, I leaned my elbows on the railing. Ino was freaking out and Sasuke was already bored. Naruto making fun of him from above was not helping either. "And start!" Hayate jumped out of the fighting area.

Sasuke threw three kunai at her and she did the same, the weapons bumping into each other, and Sasuke was behind her. He hit her in the neck and she collapsed of the floor, the Uchiha not even wavering at the sight of Ino in front of him.

"Winner: Uchiha Sasuke!" the proctor said. Sasuke 'hn-ed' and had the kindness to actually pick her up to put her down next to her team. I though hearing Shikamaru say it was absolutely not surprising she lost. But maybe Sasuke set up some kind of new record? The good thing too was he didn't display his techniques, he had the element of surprise for the next round.

Let's start the preliminaries then. I turned to my genin, who did not seem to care that much. Except Suigetsu. He was getting excited.

"No killing remember?" I whispered to them, even though I was staring at my youngest student. He deflated in a big sigh, his hands behind his head as a Sound genin and Shino went to fight. I recognized the Sound one as the one Haku fought. His injured arm did look unusable.

Shino was smart though, he wouldn't let that fool him.

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