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"Blah" - Talking

'Blah' - Thinking

Blah - Passage of time/flashback

Warning: Swears, violence, flying hearts, children getting traumatized, cheating, Anko… more Anko… honestly Anko is a warning in itself. The moment you see her just expect the worst. Also minor sex jokes.

Disclaimer: Honestly, if I did own Naruto the Boruto Arc wouldn't exist. Sad story but it's true… or at the very least the names would be more creative.


3rd person POV

Team 7 entered the exam building only to find many genin teams argueing with two boys saying that the exam was too tough. Two of the teams were Team Gai and Team Anko, only Kimimaro and Neji were just calmly chatting between the two of them.

Sasuke calmly looked at the sign, muttering to his teammates, "This is the second floor. There's a genjutsu."

"Huh?" Naruto responds dumbly before looking up at the sign that says 3 on it. "I'll take your word for it then teme, I suck at genjutsu."

The Uchiha facepalms, of course Naruto's weakness is genjutsu, he's got the brains for it. "Just collect your brother dobe. We'll be late if we stick around with these losers." The Uchiha walks, their female teammate trails behind him.

All Naruto had to do was wave at Kimimaro for him to grab Neji by his collar and drag the Hyuuga away, forcing the other three genin and one annoying penguin to follow.

Lee tried to fight Sasuke to prove himself, but sadly, the Uchiha was more fascinated with a random painting then the bushy browed boy.

"I'll fight you, dattebayo!" Naruto instantly jumped the gun on a fight, grinning mischievously.

"No thanks, I only wish to fight the Uchiha." Lee politely declines before looking at Sakura, almost instantly the boy's cheeks turned a bright pink. "Beautiful."

Sakura's eyebrow twitches, 'Be nice… he works out with Deidara-sensei.' Even with this, she could feel herself inch to hide behind the other boys. A gut feeling telling her that it's safer behind Kimimaro and Naruto than being out in the open. "U...um… Thanks?"

"Please go out with me! I swear I will protect you with my life!" Lee then blows a kiss and a frickin heart skillfully flies over the brothers and chases Sakura. The chirithy on her head sweatdrops trying to cling to its human.

"GAH! This is not normal!" Sakura runs out of spots when Lee proceeds to spam out hearts, but they are all quickly cut in half when Sasuke slices them with a kunai.

"She is not interested. Instead of proclaiming your love, court her then try again." Sasuke calmly puts the kunai away then checks Sakura for injuries, as the pinkette had ran into some pillars a few times.

"I'm fine Sasuke-kun, thanks for the help though." Sakura gives him a relieved smile as the Uchiha stuffs his hands in his pockets.

"Hn, let's just go." Neji and Tenten had to drag Lee away, while Kimimaro walked off with Sakon. Ukon was there, but he had merged with his twin.

Team 7 heads towards to the door to the exams, only to be greeted by Kakashi.

Naruto tilts his head, almost hitting his fox in the process. "Why are you here Kakashi-sensei, dattebayo?"

The silver haired man rubs the back of his head in thought, "Well, I have to meet up with your brother soon. But I wanted to wish you three luck. You've grown into strong shinobi, I can tell you will all do well on the test." He gave them his famous eye crinkle smile before poofing away.

The team all share varying degrees of smiles before nodding to each other, opening the door only to be greeted by a shitton of tense, pissed off faces.

Deidara's POV

At my apartment, I cautiously sit on my sofa after serving tea to the people I had invited over. In the room, Kakashi sat on my right, Anko on my left. Hiashi took to a cushion on the floor, while Haku and Zabuza sat on the loveseat and Gai leaned against the wall. I was going to invite Daiki, but I didn't want to risk the kid's safety as I not only had little faith in him keeping his mouth shut, but I also didn't want him to be targeted by the Akatsuki for information.

These were the people I trust with the truth, minus Haku and Zabuza I have known them all for almost five years now. They deserve this.

I take a deep breath, "Alright… I have some… something important to tell you guys, something that right now, only Kakashi knows, un."

Anko looks at me dead in the eyes, "I knew it."

"Eh?" Everyone turns to look at the only woman in the room.

"You're dating Kakashi aren't you?" Neither Kakashi, nor I had a chance to deny this before she leaped to her feet grinning like a dork. "I totally called it! I had a feeling ever since I saw you leave with him that day, and now you're here to tell us all about it! So, who tops who?" What the fuck Anko, I'm bloody 16!

Without thinking, Kakashi and I sprang away from each other, him landing on the opposite end of the room while I ended up landing on Haku and Zabuza. Gai falls for this and starts proclaiming that "Kakashi is too unyouthful for such a great youth to be dating!" while scolding Kakashi about ages. Hiashi, one of the few sane people in this room, facepalms and resumes his tea drinking. Thankfully, he understood that while I like men, I would never date Kakashi. Haku and Zabuza… Well, they're looking at Anko like she's an idiot.

"Anko, I'm not dating Kakashi, he's twice my age, that's gross, un." Kakashi felt no need to argue with me as he also agreed with that statement. There's also the teeny-tiny detail of HE LIKES GIRLS! At least, I think he does, with how often Obito is on his mind I'm unsure about him.

Anko waves her hand dismissively, "Ah, age is but a number, come on, you have a thing for him, admit it."

I feel more attraction to Sasori than I do Kakashi, and they're close in age, "No Anko, I don't and that's not why I brought you all here." Seriously, is she this desperate to pair me off with someone?

"But come on Dei-chan! You're single, at this rate you're gonna die a virgin!" Looks like it.

Also been there done that, "Anko…"

"I honestly don't see the problem with it." She folds her arms while looking smug.

"Please just-"

"Who else would you date then-" I interrupt her with a shout.

"I'M A YOUNG ADULT WOMAN THAT GOT REBORN AS A MAN AND YOU ALL ARE MANGA CHARACTERS, UN!" Now that's one way to shut everyone up, just rip off the bandage on that salty wound.

Anko falters, "What..?"

I climb off the two Kiri shinobi and fold my arms defensively, "You heard me… I died in another dimension where this world is a popular manga… one that was a big part of my childhood… and I was reborn as Deidara, un."

Hiashi looks at me suspiciously, "So you lied?"

I look at the Hyuuga head, "I never lied, I only said that I know of a future, you never asked the right questions, un." Hiashi pauses at this but nods in acknowledgement. I would have not told him the truth anyway, but at the very least I never had to lie to him.

Zabuza spoke from behind me, "Might as well start talking, we'll listen." The others in the room nod in agreement, well they are willing to listen...

I relax before returning to the sofa, Kakashi returns after Gai stopped berating him and Anko just watched me carefully.

"Here's the whole story…"

Back to the chunin exams (AN: This is a series of POV changes to see how everyone reacts to the test, this takes place once the majority of the smart genin realized that they had to cheat. Also, all of these POVs happened at once besides Naruto's. Also, the test is the exact same as the anime/manga.)

Sasuke's POV

'Heh, this was easy.' I had activated my sharingan to mimic the movements of the guy in front of me, and I hit the jackpot almost right away. Some of the questions were fairly easy like the decoding, but that was only because Deidara would make us work on them. I cannot even begin to imagine how much we would be struggling without the push. 'Weird… it's like he knew we would be tested on it...'

My thoughts were cut short when in the corner of my eye, the dobe began to panic, 'Seriously Naruto? You were raised by the biggest bookworm I have ever met, you are struggling now?' Flipping my paper over so no one could cheat on me besides a Hyuuga, I began sketching. My paper slowly became filled with abstract shapes and lines as some teams were being disqualified. The weasel around my neck just snoozed away.

Guess to become a chunin you either have to be resourceful, intelligent, or born lucky.

Sakon's POV

"Brother… the answer to 8 is…" Ukon quietly informs me about answers using our kekkei genkai. We had merged before the jounins showed up, and they either figured out our technique and chose not to say anything, or Konoha shinobi are full of idiots.

What was truly amusing was that within seconds, the genin behind us got disqualified as Ukon's head sticking from my spine caused him to slip up. Oh well, we had the first eight filled out, that should be enough points. I could see Kimimaro was already finished too. I let out a soft chuckle, causing the two genin sitting on either side of us to look at me nervously, the one on my right was almost instantly disqualified.

And this is why you keep your head close to your paper kiddies.

Sakura's POV

'That Ino-pig! She thinks she can inhabit my body and steal my answers? Oh, she is so going to get it later on shannaro!' I sit at my seat quietly fuming at what just happened moments ago. I could feel her already passing the information to her teammates, Shikamaru is a genius, why does he need her help?! Excuse me, MY help! My answers, so it was my help!

The… I think it's called a chirithy, gently pats my head to calm me down. It's so cute...

I fold my arms and glare at the wall ahead of me, I can see Naruto struggling with his test, 'Why does he have to struggle so much under pressure? If Deidara-sensei was the proctor he would be breezing through the answers.'

After staring at Ibiki for a few minutes a random thought appeared as my head tilted.

'Isn't he the one that screams like a girl every Halloween from Deidara-sensei's costumes…?'

Kimimaro's POV

The test was too easy, I finished within minutes of the it starting and now I'm absentmindedly drawing a border around my test. I had laid my clay dragon on my lap and used that as inspiration; I am no artist despite Nii-sama and Sasuke-san's natural talents, I can only draw what I can see.

The test was completely pointless, I could see even Neji noticed how ridiculous the whole thing was. It was just a test on how well you could obtain information. I just let him copy my answers, it's better if more genin that we know are in the next rounds than ones we don't know.

What has been bothering me though, is the man Nii-sama had escorted to the registration building not only sat by me in complete silence, but he kept staring at me through his hair. The entire time I have sat next to him, he has shown no signs of stress or anxiety, even though the girl with red hair on the other side of me, (AN: *Snaps fingers* Eeeeeyyyyyyyy~) was borderline panicking as she could not figure out one of the math problems.

"You are rather talented boy." I jolt in my seat as the man finally spoke in a low hiss, like a snake whispering deadly secrets. I wanted to kill that whisper.

I chose to remain silent, I cannot risk my team being disqualified, not only would it let Anko-sensei down, but Nii-sama would be disappointed if we left because I decided to chat.

Otouto would be left alone too, I need to be there to protect him and his team.

The man let out a low chuckle before returning to his finished test, I definitely wanted to kill that voice.

Hinata's POV

'I… I need to do well for Kiba and Shino… but what if I mess up-' I flinch as I feel a tap on my head. Ever since Deidara-san had trained me in my confidence, whenever I start to doubt myself I would feel a tap… but he's not here. I remember when I asked, he said I was experiencing "ghost pain", and while I don't understand how that works… it was a nice reminder to have faith in myself.

Naruto-kun was sitting next to me and he seemed panicked, I noticed he had the decoding questioned answered, but he couldn't figure out the math problems.

I want us to continue into the exams together, this is my chance to prove not only myself, but to Naruto-kun that I am not some meek little girl anymore. And… it's not cheating if I give him my answers willingly… right…?

Taking a gulp of air, I let out a soft, "Naruto-kun…?"

Naruto's POV

'GAH! What do I do?! I don't know any of this! I'm going to fail and be stuck as genin, and teme and Sakura-chan will be so mad at me! The clock's ticking won't stop either, man am I scre-'

"Naruto-kun…?"

'Huh?' A soft voice next to me snaps me out of my thoughts, looking to my right, Hinata was sitting next to me, 'Hinata…? Wow, I was so overwhelmed with stress that I forgot she was there… I feel like an ass just thinking about that.'

I quietly return a whisper, "Yeah?" Instead of responding, she secretly snuck her test under her arm for me to see… Ohhhhhhh… She wants me to cheat… wait.

"Why are you doing this Hinata…?" I mean, I trust her but she is risking both of us getting disqualified.

She pushes her fingers together in a nervous way, "Well… I just… thought it would be nice if we all passed together…"

I tilt my head in thought, that's really cool of her! But before I could take a peek a kunai whizzed past my head and the guy behind us got disqualified. I gulped nervously, "I'll be okay Hinata, dattebayo! I'll make sure to pass!" Hinata looks at me with wide eyes, before her cheeks turned pink and looked away nodding.

She's gotten to be a pretty cool girl, but her habits are still a little odd.

Back to the adults… and Haku

Deidara's POV

"And that's how I knew where to find Kimimaro and the twins, un." I nervously began to fidget in my seat as everyone stared at me, their expressions ranged from blank -Haku, Kakashi and Hiashi- to complete and utter WTF -everyone else-. Kakashi was the only one in the room that knew ahead of time, and while I left out a bunch of information, I said enough about my past life in detail for them to believe me. I had even pulled out the Notebook of Doom to show them my sketches of people and translated some details that were considered S rank secrets.

Finally, Anko broke the tension, "So that's why you like men!" I felt my hand greet my face while hearing the sound of other's hands do the same thing. Leave it to my dear friend Anko to know her priorities.

Zabuza, who had also facepalmed, looked over at her with a disgruntled expression, "The kid not only confirmed that reincarnation is an actual thing, but that in his past life we are all fictional characters that he watched to the point of borderline obsession..." I was not obses-... yeah no, middle school me was a complete nerd. "… and you're focused on his sexuality?"

Anko shrugs and proceeds to smother me, guess where she decided to force my head to be? "So? Dei-chan is still Dei-chan, knowing that inside this body is a little girl only makes him cuter." Jesus Christ this woman really is insane. Also, I can't breath.

I yank myself away from Anko's death trap, "HEY! I was nineteen when I died! I was not a 'little girl' un!" I hate being called a kid, dammit I am mature for my age, treat me as such!

Hiashi, having enough of this, finally speaks up, "What will you have us do now Deidara? Now that we know the truth about you."

I pause, to be completely honest, I didn't think that through. The guilt of keeping this secret from them was eating me to the point where it was almost unhealthy, so I had to spill at some point. Slumping against the couch I stare at a random book on a shelf in thought.

"Not sure… but… I want you guys to trust me on decisions I choose to make." I feel several of them tense up. "If something goes wrong, then it's my fault, but at the same time certain things cannot be changed with a simple 'Hey! I'm here with knowledge from the future, so listen to me!' Because not only does that sometimes have an opposite effect… but it puts myself and my brothers at risk. While I originally had this grandeur idea of changing the future, I need to do baby steps. Especially now that I killed Danzo, I don't need more people targeting me, un." How Orochimaru has failed to learn the truth about me is beyond my comprehension.

I see Gai nod and give me a thumbs up, "Such youth and determination! We will do our best to help you out!" At least I have Gai on my side… yay?

Kakashi cuts in, "But if we feel the need to interfere, don't expect us to stop just because you say so."

I look over at the silver haired shinobi with a smile, "Wouldn't have it any other way... FUCK!" Everyone leaps at the sudden raise in tone, "The test is almost over! I gotta go, un!"

Running to my window I pull out a sculpture that I had made the night before, I become overly giddy and excited when I threw it outside and let it poof into its massive size. Hopping on the creatures back, I fly to the testing area ignoring the screams below me.

Time to scare some chibis!

3rd person POV

All of the genin were still recovering from the shock of the test, when a loud THUD on the roof of the building caused everyone to look up.

"Um… Hinata, did you just hear that?" Naruto looks over at the Hyuuga girl, but was interrupted by Sakon.

"Are you kidding me? I FELT that!" The younger of the twins sprang to hit feet.

The hyuugas in the room activated their byakugan, their confused and terrified faces didn't help to their anxiety. Neither was all of the jounin instructors putting in earplugs.

Kiba also got to his feet, "What the hell-"

Suddenly a large, black reptilian head slams into the wall, breaking it down and roaring into the classroom. All of the younger genin screamed while the older genin, and Orochimaru, all suffered from mass collection of brain farts.

A sadistic laughter from the other side of the upside-down head was what stopped all of the screaming and mass hysteria.

"Oh my God… hahahahaha! Holy shit! I didn't think Drogon* would scare you guys so much, un!" That all too familiar verbal tick caused several more genin to stand up and exclaim all at once.

"DEIDARA/-NII/-SENSEI/-SAN/NII-SAMA!"

The blond bomber carefully climbs around the massive beast's head and leaps into the room still laughing his ass off. "I couldn't help myself! That was too funny, un!" with a single handsign the dragon poofs into a tiny miniature, but detailed, figure and he pockets it.

Ibiki removes his earplugs, "As funny as this was, and while you did warn us ahead of time. That's coming out of your neck A-rank paycheck."

Deidara waves at Ibiki dismissively, "Yeah yeah yeah, just be glad it was just the wall and not a window. Glass is expensive, un."

Ino, red faced and pissed, begins yelling, "What the hell was that for! You scared us all half to death!"

The older blond pouted, "Aw… only half…? Boo, un." The apathy in his voice made many genin uncomfortable.

A sudden clap caused the tenser genin to jolt. "Alright kiddies, and old people if you are older than me, my name is Deidara, I'll be your proctor for the second exam. Follow me please, un." He begins to walk, only to pause noticing no one has moved. Pulling out Drogon again, "Come on, I don't like being kept waiting, un!"

Quickly, several genins scramble after him, the redhead girl slammed into his back when he suddenly stopped.

The bomber snickers to himself, "Waiting...pffff…" Before continuing on walking, as if whatever he said was the best inside joke he's ever heard.

Out of the 24 shinobi following the blond, only about 8 of them were positive that Deidara was not insane… even the ones that know him were questioning this.

At the Forest of Death

Deidara's POV

After the whole scare fiasco, I met up with all of the genin + 1 snake pedo out at the front of the Forest of Death.

"Alright chibis! Listen up and listen good because I hate repeating myself! Everyone will go through a gate, enter this forest," I point at it behind me, "And have five days to get to the center tower, un."

Ino shrieks, "WHAT?! How are we supposed to do that?!"

I ignore her, and jab my thumb at a map, "The Forest of Death is huge, filled with animals and insects just waiting for human flesh… I predict at least… meh, a fourth of you will die, un." I think my casual shrug made some of the genin afraid. "This is a survival exercise, but also a hunt."

I pull out the heaven and earth scrolls and explain the basic rules for the exam, followed by explaining the waiver. (AN: I am Shikamaru level lazy. I ain't typing it all.)

"Finally, I added a special rule to this. When you sign the waiver and get your scroll, you will also get one of these." I pull out a small clay bird. "I will be flying over the forest at all times. If you need me to show up, just throw the birds into the air, they will dodge all attacks and explode, un. However, you only have one. Which is why there are rules to this."

"Rules?" I hear several genin, including Naruto, repeat.

"Yes, rules. One: If you wish to give up, I will collect you and your teammates and bring you to safety. Two: I will always show up from the air on a clay bird, if you do not believe it is me, ask me to use my kekkei genkai and I shall blow something up." I pause, waiting for questions, when there was none, I continued. "Third: I will also come to provide aid if you are in a life or death situation with FOREST CREATURES ONLY! If you are attacked by another team I will ignore you, un. The exception is if you believe someone is not a genin and they attack you, un."

I'm looking at you Orochimaru.

Kankuro smirked, thinking he's gonna be a smart ass "And, if we use these birds so we could attack you?"

"Oh, I'll kill you and all of your cute little teammates, un!" I chirped quite happily. "Like this!" I create a clone and set a clay frog by it. "Katsu."

The frog dissolves, but nothing happened.

The only people that understood what was happening were the sensor types and Orochimaru. Another hand sign from me and the clone slowly dissolves into the air, while I keep a kindergarten teacher smile.

"That is how you will die if you try to attack me, un! Now sign the waiver and get into position." I dropped my happy smile with a sadistic glare as the genin teams collect the paper.

Because I am appearing professional, I ignore Naruto trying to play twenty questions with me, and just stared down any teams that dare to look at me. I may be a small blond, but minus Orochimaru, I can kick everyone's asses here.

Not that I would, there are too many sweethearts.

"Alright! Everyone ready, un!" Seeing the teams settle at their gates, I create a bird and fly off screaming out, "BEGIN!" The gates open and teams run into the forest.


Shorter than usual but meh, I liked it. Also you guys finally had a glimpse of Karin, happy? XD Next chapter will contain the entirety of the Forest of Death, I'm struggling with writing it so don't expect till Sunday.

*Drogon: A bigass dragon from Game of Thrones. Look up it's season 7 size then imagine it popping it's head into a room roaring… yeah, Deidara is an evil little bastard. XD

As usual, reviews are loved and I will see you guys this weekend with the Forest of Death.

Bye!