Beating The Odds

Chapter 07: Chuunin Exams

By: MikeJV37

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Naruto: 13

Hinata: 13

Tenten: 14

----July 15, 8:14 AM, Near The Park----

A nine year old boy ran through the street, turned a corner and moments later crashed into someone and fell on his butt.

"Watch where you're going you little shit!" He said, reached down and lifted the boy off his feet by his collar.

He looked at the hitai-ite on the man's head, he wore a black suit that covered everything but his face, which was painted, and had a big bundle on his back.."You're from Suna, here for the Chuunin Exams.... and my name is Konohamaru Sarutobi, grandson of the Hokage, so you better put me down.... catface!"

Kankurou smirked, amused. "Oh really? Big deal shitstain, I'm the son of the Kazekage so I don't care.... either apologize for running in to me or I'll beat you bloody!"

A Kunai suddenly passed between them, cutting Konohamaru's shirt, which ripped and dropped him to his feet, a moment later he was behind his friend.

"I don't care if you're the Kazekage.... you threaten a kid again.... especially one of my friends.... and I'll beat YOU bloody!" Naruto said fiercely then ruffled Konohamaru's hair. "You okay?"

"I'm fine boss. I was gonna apologize, until he threatened me.... now I'm not goin to, catface!" Konohamaru said.

"Its war paint you little...." Kankurou almost yelled.

"Leave the kid alone catface." A well built blonde girl with four short ponytails interrupted with an amused smirk.

"Oh come on Temari, he ran into me!" Kankurou said exasperated.

"I don't care Kankurou, you beat up a little kid or get in a fight before the exams and get us kicked out, and you can tell him why, because I won't.".Temari said calmly but firmly. "Besides, the blonde kid and his little girlfriends don't look like they're even worth the effort." Temari said, sounding almost bored. 'Though that blonde kid is damn cute, makes my nipples hard just looking at him.... I wonder if he has a girlfriend? No, remember why you're here Temari.... a real shame though, I hope he survives.' Temari thought, the last part sadly.

"Stop playing around or I'll kill you both." A dead voice said from above them.

Everyone turned to see a red-haired boy in brown robes, black ringed eyes, the Kanji for 'Love' on his forehead in red and a huge gourd on his back, he was standing on a limb fifteen feet up in a tree by the street, his arms crossed over his chest.

Naruto saw the black clad boy called Kankurou and the blond girl he'd called Temari look at the new boy and cringe in terror. Naruto went to full alert when he saw him, something about the redhead bothered him, but was very familiar. Naruto saw him do a sand shushin from the tree to the street next to the other two, who stepped back in fear. He could tell they were both strong.... but the redhead was different, he hid it well but was far stronger than he should be, he could feel it. 'That's it.... he's a jinchuuriki like me! Kyuubi, can you tell which one he has?' Naruto thought.

Kyuubi tapped into Naruto's senses and enhanced them and he studied the red-headed boy that for him was about five minutes, but a second in the Real World. 'It has to be Shukaku, the one-tailed Racoon.... want me to....'

'No.' Naruto interrupted. 'We won't do anything unless he tries to kill someone or use Shukaku's chakra. I know that look in his eyes, I used to have it, he's never known love or even had a friend.'' Naruto thought.

Kyuubi just nodded and layed down in his cage..

"Get out of here.... and you...." Naruto said and pointed to Garra, no fear on his face. "If you hurt any of my friends I'll kill you." Naruto said seriously.

Temari and Kankurou were about to laugh at the blonde kid, then saw the look on his face, he seemed to know what Garra was, they'd seen the look on hundreds of people in Suna, but unlike them, this kid wasn't scared even a little.

Garra raised his eyebrows slightly, and a very subtle smirk appeared on his lips. "We will meet again, and I will kill you." Garra said in a dead voice, tirned and walked awa, Temari and Kankurou followed him.

"That kid with the red hair is really scary." Konohamaru said, obviously intimidated..

Hinata and Tenten nodded in agreement.

Naruto waved over Moegi and Udon from where they were hiding."You two okay?" Naruto asked, then smiled when they nodded. "Come on, let's go get some breakfast, you three look hungry and we'll need our energy for the Exams. We don't have to be there until eleven so where do you guys wanna eat? I'm buying!" Naruto said to the Konohamaru Corps with a big smile.

----11:06 AM, Exam Building, Floor 2----

Naruto, Hinata and Tenten behind him to either side, walked up behind his friends. "Hey Sasuke-teme, Bull, Chichi-chan.... watching the show?" Naruto said obviously amused. Almost thirty feet away about a dozen Genin, some from Konoha, were trying to get past a pair of Chuunin guards in front of a door disguised by a weak Genjutsu to look like the third floor door they had to find.

"I stink at Genjutsu and even I saw through it.... don't they realize this is the second floor? And people think I'm thick-headed." Bull said in his deep voice, and chuckled.

"How did those bakas ever make Genin anyway.... if this is the competition our only challenge is you three and my brother's Team." Sasuke said both amused and dissappointed.

Naruto got serious. "Have you guys met the Suna team yet? Blonde girl with four ponytails and what looks like a giant fan on her back, a guy in all black with a big bundle on his back and a redhead with a big gourd on his back.... be careful of the redhead, he's a lot stronger than he looks. If you see our friends tell them to avoid him at all costs. We met him earlier... he almost killed his teammates for no reason. I can't tell you why, just please trust me and do what I ask." Naruto said quietly, but very seriously.

Sasuke looked at Naruto, he knew Naruto had a lot of quirks, but one of the things he never joked about was his friends safety. "Alright, but if he's that dangerous shouldn't you tell someone?"

"If they make it to the matches I will, besides.... we won't see our Sensei until then anyway, so if they are up to smething it's better to just watch for now and gather more info on them."

Sasuke thought a moment then nodded. "Good point, always know your enemy. Come on, let's get upstairs, we've wasted enough time here anyway." Sasuke said, turned and headed for the stairs.

Naruto nodded to his teammates and followed Team Six. 'I just know in the next couple days I'll have to tell Sasuke and the others that don't know about you furball.... they're ready, I just wish I'd done it sooner.' Naruto thought.

Kyuubi just laughed, he desperately wanted to tell Naruto I told you so, but held it in, he knew something big was going to happen soon and this wasn't the time to have a fight with Naruto.

----12:14 PM, Floor 3, Exam Room 34----

Naruto sat calmly in his seat, Ibiki had just finished his big speech about the rules, and that they'd only have forty minutes then he'd give them the tenth question. Only the Jounin and Hokage knew that Naruto knew Ibiki as well as the rest of them and been trained by him in mental discipline and a few special jutsu he used. He had to use a lot of will power to keep from laughing when Ibiki raised his bandanna to show his heavily scarred head. He heard many of the Genin's shocked reactions, even some of his friends, he didn't want to spoil Ibiki's fun, the man truely loved to scare the shit of people.... of course being the Head ANBU Interrogation it was no surprise he wa a sadistic bastard.... Anko either, as he'd trained her as well to be one of his top interrogators, though she hadn't actually done that in years, there weren't many people in Konoha Anko didn't scare as much as Ibiki did. Of course if he told everyone that Ibiki was a really nice guy when you got to know him, or that Anko was a big submissive pussy if you approached her the right way.... he'd ruin their carefully crafted images.

After she heard Ibiki say begin Hinata turned over her paper and saw the nine questions on it were way above their level, most Genin had no chance of answering any of these questions correctly, even she could only answer three, maybe four. She was wondering how they were supposed to pass this test when she suddenly felt something in her jacket just above her full breasts. She unzipped her jacket two inches, waved it like she was hot, glanced down into the space betwen her jacket and shirt.... and saw a tiny blue toad look up at her with a smile.

"Don't say anything Hinata-sama, Naruto-sama sent me to help you." The tiny toad whispered so only Hinata could hear him. "Naruto-sama sent one of us to Tenten-sama as well. He said we're suppossed to cheat to pass this test, just not get caught. There are several Chuunin here with completed tests for you to copy off. One is one row down, between you and Naruto-sama, do you see him?" The tiny male toad whispered.

Hinata glanced at the student in front and to her left and almost gasped, his test was filled out with the answers. She nodded subtly.

"Copy from him and wait for time to run out. If you want to pass a message to Naruto-sama or Tenten-sama tell me, I'll pass it on to the others, they'll translate and relay it to them. Oh.... Naruto-sama wants me to tell you to stop calling your breasts fat and saggy, they're full and only sag a little because they're heavy.... he loves his sweet melon girl and can't wait until she's ripe and ready to pick." It whispered almost embarrassed.

Hinata looked down at the table and blushed bright red at Naruto's nickname for her. It took her a few moments to suppress her blush but when she did she raised her head and started to copy answers. "Please tell Naruto-kun thank you.... but he'll have to wait two years to harvest them." Hinata whispered and blushed again, but just for a moment. Soon after she heard a quiet chuckle and turned to see Naruto blushing subtly.

Tenten saw Hinata and Naruto acting a little silly and smirked, she knew basically what was going on. "Sorry I don't have much for you to sit on." Tenten whispered to the tiny white toad on her chest beneath her shirt, above her sports bra. She actualy liked how the tiny toad felt sitting on her chest.

"From my view, your chest is gigantic, they look like mountains to me." It whispered.

Tenten blushed slightly. 'He called my little C cups gigantic.... like mountains' Tenten squealed happily to herself. In the year since she graduated she'd filled out and finally felt like a real kunoichi, all her girl friends had, she'd even come out to them and was happy they didn't think or act differently towards her. She'd even been on a couple sleep overs, the last was her favorite though, she'd finally convinced Hinata to go, she could still see their faces when Hinata finally took off her jacket, Hinata had grown the least, only one cup size, but what she had dwarfed them and their moms. She'd found their reactions hilarious, especially Ino who thought her D cups were the biggest of all her friends.

----12:50 PM----

"Now for your fnal Question...." Ibiki said and told them about the pass or fail conditions of the final question.

Naruto almost smirked, during Ibiki's explination he'd figured out the real reason for the final question, the conditions he gave made it obvious to him. "Tell Hinata-chan and Tenten-chan not to worry, just sit and wait Gamachibi." Naruto whispered to the tiny orange toad in his jacket, who croaked the message to the others at a frequency only they could hear. Naruto glanced around, saw their subtle nods then leaned back in his chair, put his feet up and his hands behind his head, he looked almost bored.

Naruto's friends saw him, then the rest of Team Seven relax, figured Naruto knew what he was doing since he was never wrong about anything, and knew he wouldn't fail, so they did the same.

Sasuke chuckled quietly when several Teams folded under the pressure and quit. He watched a total of five Teams finally quit, and noticed the Team from the new Sound Village and the one from Suna thet Naruto had warned him about didn't quit.

"That it.... anyone else?" Ibiki said and waited a moment. "Then it's my pleasure to tell everyone that you passed!" Ibiki said and smiled.

'That's it, we don't leave and we pass? There's no tenth question?" Kiba asked. When he saw Ibiki shake his head no he face planted on the desk.

Fuki giggled loudly at her teammates antics and covered her mouth with both hands.

At that moment a spear crashed through the widow, stuck in the far wall and a banner unrolled from the end that said 'Anko Mitarashi'. Right after it did Anko leapt in through the now open window stood proudly in front of Ibiki's desk with her 'crazy bitch' face. "I'm Anko Mitarashi you maggots, Proctor of the second Exam, so pick up your shit and get out, someone will show you where to go.... MOVE IT!" Anko yelled in a scary voice. She watched everyone leave the room, the Leaf Genin gave her a subtle smirk as they passed, they'd seen the real her. Her team was last, she made sure the others were clear then smiled warmly at Naruto.

"Did you have fun Anko?" Naruto said with a playful smile.

"You know I did brat.... now get out of here before you ruin my image." Anko said and smirked.

Naruto glanced at Hinata and Tenten, reached up inside Anko's trenchcoat, grabbed her right breast through her mesh shirt, pulled her down and gave her a quick kiss on the lips. "Hai.... Anko-sensei." A smirking Naruto turned and walked out with his teammates, who were giggling quietly.

A red-faced Anko turned to Ibiki as she pulled a kunai. "Not one word Ibiki, don't you even fucking smirk or so help me I'll give you a scar where it won't show!.So thirty-eight passed huh, you're slipping, but the next Exam will thin'em out."

He didn't show it but Ibiki was laughing on the inside at what Naruto had done to her, something he knew Anko would kill anyone else for doing. "Shouldn't you be on your way already Anko?" Ibiki said calmly and gave Anko a small smirk. A moment later a kumai flew past his head and stuck in the wall behind him, he didn't even flinch. "You seem tense Anko.... you need to work off that stress with a good bar fight.... or maybe just get laid." Ibiki said casually.

Anko took a quick deep breath and sighed. "Understatement of the year.... but during the Exams I can't afford to do either of those, especially the second one.... I don't do that anymore and you know why."

"You're really going to wait two more years for him.... I'm proud of you Anko." Ibiki said seriously.

"Thanks.... Ibiki-san." Anko said, smiled and vanished in a swirl of wind and leaves.

Ibiki smiled, Anko hadn't called him that since she was his apprentice.

----Outside----

"Naruto-kun, did you have to do that to Anko-chan? I know she's special to you, and I don't mind when we're alone, but...." Hinata said quietly.

"I know Hinata-chan." Naruto interrupted politely. "Didn't you notice that Ibiki wasn't surprised I did that to Anko-chan?" Naruto said quietly.

Hinata stopped and thought a moment, then her eyes opened wider. "He knows already.... so he's one of your...."

Naruto quickly put a finger on Hinata's lips to stop her and smiled. "That's one of those secrets I can't tell you, but you're right that he is one of the people that's trained me. Hinata-chan, Tenten-chan, you know I hate keeping things from you, but I can't tell you everything yet. I told you about my.... special friend." Naruto said and glanced down at his stomach so they knew he meant Kyuubi. "For now that'll have to be enough, can you wait until we're married Hinata-chan, then I can tell you, Tenten-chan, and the rest of our friends everything."

"Hai, I'll always wait for you Naruto-kun." Hinata said happily.

"Me too Naruto-kun." Tenten said with a smile.

Naruto hugged them both at once. "That's why you're my best girls." Naruto said happily and gave them both a quick kiss on the cheek. "Come on, if we're late for the next Exam Anko will be mad." Naruto said and smirked.

----Outside Training Ground 44----

"Listen up maggots because I'm only gonna say this once! Welcome to Training Ground Forty-four.... or as we like to call it, the Forest of Death! Before you go in there are a few rules. First, you'll have to sign consent forms releasing Konoha of all responsibilty should you happen to die. Each team will be given either an Earth Scroll or Heaven Scroll, you can't complete this exam without both scrolls.... how you get a scroll you need from another team is up to you, I don't fucking care. However, uou are NOT to open either Scroll until you reach the Tower, if you do we'll know and you're who;e team will be disqualified. Your goal is to reach the Tower at the center within five days. You must get there in the allotted time, with both scrolls and all members of your team must be alive.... lose even one member and you're disqualified. One more thing.... that isn't just a clever name, there are giant animals, insects, killer plants and dozens of other things living in there that would happy kill and eat you, so keep your eyes open at all times and stay alert. Not that I care, but I have to tell you that. Now get your asses over there, sign the consent forms, then pick up a scroll and head to the Gate you're assigned.... MOVE IT MAGGOTS!" Anko yelled fiercely and glared at them. 'I love this job! Sorry I can't help you Naruto-kun, Hinata-chan, Tenten-chan, but I've trained you as best I can in the year since I became your Sensei, I hope it was enough.... protect your friends for me Naruto-kun, you guys are all my family and I don't want to lose any of you.' Anko thought.

Naruto lead his Team to the first booth, signed their forms then Naruto picked up the Earth Scroll and headed to Gate 13 where Teams Six and Ten were already waiting, just as they got to the Gate a Rock Team joined them. "Hey guys...." Naruto said with a smile, then turned to the Rock team. "Good luck." Naruto said to them, being nice.

"We don't need luck squirt, but you and the other Leaf wimps will need all you can get with little pussies like them around... especially that little bimbo." The biggest one said and then pointed to the busty little redhead directly in fromt of him..

Chichi cowered slightly and sniffled as her eyes teared up, then she turned away from the big Rock nin..

"You shouldn't of said that." Sasuke said with a big sadistic smile. he'd interrupted Naruto before he acted..

"Why not, you going to do smething about it.... pretty boy?" The big Rock nin said with a scowl.

"Not me.... him." Sasuke said and pointed over his shoulder with his right thumb.

The big Rock nin, with his two teammates, looked past the pretty boy and didn't see anyone.... then they heard a very deep growl, and a very heavily muscled bald kid stood up behind the girl and pretty boy. He was over six feet tall and very angry.

Bull stepped past Sasuke and Chichi and got chest to face with the smaller Rock nin that just insulted his village, his friends.... and worst of all his teammate Chichi. "I'm only gonna ask once.... apologize to my friends or you won't even make it past the Gate."

The small remaining crowd of Genin stopped and watched, as did Anko and few others there.

"Oh fuck....they must of insulted Chichi, that's the only thing that makes him that mad." Anko thought.

"Are you gong to stop it?" Asuma asked quietly from behind Anko.

Anko just smiled sadistically. "And miss a good fight? Besides, they've signed the consent forms, it doesn't specify they have to be inside the Forest, it takes effect the moment they sign it and you know that."

Asuma sighed. "Forgot who I was talking too.".

A moment later there was a loud crack, a crash, then two more crashes.

Anko jumped off the stage and walked over to the rubble by the end of the stage where a large crater now was. She looked down and saw the big rock nin sprawled out, a fist-like dent on what used to be a face, beside him were what was left of his teammates, partially buried in the ground. She dropped in, checked for pulses and sighed.

"Are they okay?" Naruto yelled from Gate 13 almost thirty feet away.

"Which scroll do you have?" Anko yelled.

"Earth!" Sasuke yelled back, he didn't care if everyone knew, wanted them to try at and take his Earth Scroll.

"How ironic, they had the Heaven Scroll.... which is where they are now." Anko yelled back, picked it up and threw it to Sasuke, who caught it. "Congratulations, you guys got the first set of scrolls. Everyone hurry up and get your scrolls.... and if you're smart you'll avoid the big guy."

Everyone quickly rushed to get their scroll and to their Gate, a Grass Team was sent to Gate 13, they didn't say a word to anyone, just gave a friendly nod.

"BEGIN!" Anko yelled, then the huge gates opened slightly inward so they could be pushed open and let everyone in.

End Chapter 7