The morning had come, the Chunin exams were going to start today. Team nine gathered outside the Academy, it was the first time they had all been back since they meet their Sensei. The team entered and walked up to the third floor, it was Toshiro that looked around as if something was off. Riku turned to him, "Toshiro are you okay?"

He shook his head, "Something is up, we are in an illusion but lets just play along for now."

Riku looked a bit confused at why he would say that but Koji placed a hand on her shoulder, "Toshiro is just thinking, if we reveal too much about ourselves then others could use that against us."

Riku nodded, "Alright I get that."

They walked towards the room marked three-zero-one and see two guys blocking the way with more then a few others arguing about getting in, they must also be the ones who came in early. The one with three bandages on his face opened his mouth first, "This is it? This is who they are letting in? You kids have no business being in the Chunin Exams."

The man next to him laughed, "I bet at least half of them die before the day is over."

"What did you say!" one over excited genin shouted as he charged forward.

The spike black hair kid easily sweeps the charging kid's legs out knocking him to the floor, he then turns his attention to Riku. "Oh look what we have here, miss I'm only here because of who my grandfather is."

Riku look angry as she choked back her rage and looked away, it was Toshiro who took the lead. "Oh cute these two losers think they know anything about Riku, what next make fun of Koji here? Mock me for loving all the ladies? No, then now you can get out of our way."

The pair laughed, "Please, what can someone like you do?"

Koji stepped next to Toshiro now and so did Riku, "You won't be dealing with just him." the Uchiha spoke calmly.

"You deal with us, we are a team for a reason." Riku glared.

"Ha I actually like these three it will be a shame to see them disfigured in the exams." The brown hair one spoke this time.

Toshiro just smiled as his hands clasped together, his eyes locked on the two men before he looked to Riku and nodded, before he could speak thou Riku opened her mouth first. "Alright playtime is over, how about you release the genjutsu you have on all of us."

"Riku what are you doing?" Toshiro whispered.

Koji reassured the young man, "Misinformation can be just as important of a weapon."

Some of the other genin around look around confused as they began to whisper among each other, "I thought the Third Hokage's Granddaughter was smarter then that."

"She is crazy." Another spoke.

Riku rolled her eyes before brushing her bangs out of her face, "Come on lets find the real room." She hooked her arms around one of Toshiro's and one of Koji's before the group left walking towards the stairwell to find the real classroom of three-zero-one.

Izumo and Kotetsu smiled, the last of the people were through their genjutsu as they watched them leave. "Well maybe the rookies will make an impact this year." Izumo spoke confidently.

The two of them felt a cold shiver go down their spines as a pair of arms wrapped around each one's shoulder, they two chunin were pulled into as large pair of breasts as Hitomi smiled at them. "Oh look at you two. I haven't seen you in ages!"

"Hitomi!" Kotetsu struggled to speak as he was gasping for air.

Izumo managed to break free and drag Kotetsu away, "Hitomi...it's nice to see you, but please don't try to kill us with your love."

Hitomi smiled as she released the two men, "That's all you have to say after you two left me." Her tone was that of someone pretending to be hurt.

"Hitomi we didn't leave you, you were promoted." Kotetsu laughed as he poked her shoulder.

Hitomi chuckled as she brushed her hair back, "So how did my three genin do?"

"Well..." Izumo spoke up and Hitomi crossed her arms. "Despite not listening to the crowd they knew we had a genjutsu in place making them think they are on the third floor. The girl did most the talking for the group."

Hitomi felt pride in hearing what Riku did, "How did the other rookies do?"

"Kurenai's team was the first to arrive, that little dog the Inuzuka has spoiled the genjutsu, next was your team, Asuma's team was next I think that Shikamaru kid had it found out as soon as he got in the Academy, and finally Kakashi's team figured it out even faster and made no attempt to hide what they could do, we stopped since most of the other teams had arrived. Now we are just waiting for Ibiki before we begin the first official test." Izumo explained to Hitomi.

"Well I will take my leave and join my fellow Jounin in watching, take care of the testing." she winked. "And you better join me for some food soon or else." she threatened with a giggle before leaving.

Izumo exhaled and rubbed the top of his head, "Was she always like this even when we were all genin?"

Kotetsu nodded, "Yes she was, but come on you know it funny."

Team nine felt like they were on the outside looking in seeing that most of all the other genin in the classroom looked older and way more experienced then them. The three keep to themselves for the most part, Toshiro thou caught a few glimpses of his Desert Rose. Koji however placed his hand on his shoulder and shook his head, "Now isn't the time Toshiro we need to focus on the exam now another girl."

Toshiro pushed the Uchiha's hand off of his shoulder and snorted, "It's always time for love." But as he finished Riku caught his eye and she had her arms crossed and an angry look in her eyes. "Okay fine."

The door opened one final time as Team Seven walked in, Koji was shocked to see them thinking that of all the rookies they would be the least likely since they had Naruto on their squad. Something wasn't right thou Sasuke's eyes were locked on Koji and he looked enraged, not stopping he made his way over to him. "What the hell kinda training did you do with that Rock Lee kid!?" he demanded.

Koji didn't resist or looked worry, "I just trained with him, once my Sharingan activated it just became part of our routine."

Sasuke glared at the other Uchiha, "I will not lose to him again because of you."

Koji however look angry now, "I will train my Sharingan with who I want, unlike you I don't have a Sensei who can just show me all the answers I have to figure it out on my own." he growled in almost a whisper it looked like this would have turned into a fist fight but thankfully Ino placed her arms around Sasuke's neck in a loving embrace.

"Sasuke where have you been!?" she asked as he looked up at her annoyed the angry between the Uchiha's broken for now at least. "Boy you have no idea how much I was hoping you would show up here. I've missed those good looks of your's."

Sakura looked more enraged then Sasuke did earlier as she growled at Ino, "Hey you porkier back off he's mine!"

"Miss Forehead they let you in? Still got those frown lines on your billboard brow I see." Ino taunted as she was now at Sasuke's side with only one arm around him.

Sakura was shaking her arms in the air as she shouted at Ino, "Leave my forehead out of it!"

"Sakura please, if anyone is going to win the battle of the heart it will be a Yamanaka." Toshiro laughed a rose in his hand as he leaned next to Ino. "But Ino please you could pick someone better then an Uchiha." He laughed as his cousin, Sakura, and Sasuke all gave him death stares.

"They let you six in too? I knew this was going to be a drag but I didn't know it was going to be this lame." The voice came from Shikamaru the laziest of the rookie ninja as he and Choji walked up now.

"So all three stooges are here." Naruto stated.

"Hey you know what pipsqueak...forget it you are a waste of time." Shikamaru started off with an aggressive tone but soon returned to his non-caring tone.

Choji on the other hand didn't say a word he just keep on eating.

"Sorry but Sasuke will be mine, no matter what my cousin thinks." Ino stated.

Riku rolled her eyes, she had no idea why these two were feuding over a guy who had no feelings for either of them, she looked over at Naruto and smiled. "Good luck once this thing starts Naruto because I'm not going to hold back."

"Good because I don't place to go any less then one hundred percent against you Riku." he gave her a thumbs up as Kiba and the rest of team eight walked up.

"Well well well, it looks like the whole gang is back together again." Kiba smirked as he looked at each of the other nine rookies.

"Oh hi Naruto." she spoke very softly as she turned away in a blush once he looked over at her.

"You guys too huh? Man everyone's here for this stupid thing." Shikamaru grumbled again.

"Yup here we all are, the twelve rookies. This is going to be fun." he laughed. "At least for those of use good enough to make the cut...right Sasuke?"

"Kiba careful you don't get overconfident." Sasuke warned.

"Just wait we are going to blow you guys away, we've been training like crazy."

"What do you think we have been doing? Sitting around picking daisies, you don't know what training means!" Naruto pointed at Kiba.

Hinata was pressing her fingers together, "Don't mind Kiba, I'm sure he didn't really mean anything by it."

"Huh?" Naruto asked as he focused on Hinata who again looked away with a blush.

Choji suddenly began to walk towards Kiba only for the silent Shino to stop him. "What do you want?...what's wrong?"

Shino looked down stopping the large genin from stepping on a small insect. "Thought maybe you didn't see it, didn't want you stepping on it."

"Why you saving it for lunch?" Choji teased.

"Hey you guys." A white haired man with glasses walked towards the rookies, "You might want to try and keep it down a little, I mean no offense but you are the twelve rookies right? Fresh out of the academy? I wouldn't go making a spectacle of yourselves, just cool it. This isn't a class fieldtrip."

"Well who asked you?! Who are you?!" Ino demanded.

"I'm Kabuto Yakushi, but really look around you." he suggested.

All twelve looked toward the seats to see that most of the room was staring at the twelve at the back of the room, "You've made quite an impression." Towards the left they see a group of ninja that stood out from the rest with their strange outfits and umbrellas on their backs. "See those guys, they are from the rain village, very touchy...they all are. This exam makes everyone tenses and you don't want to rub them the wrong way without them." He then smiled and relaxed, "You can't help it, after all you're just rookies. You remind me of yourself a while back."

Riku looked back to the rain village guys again, 'Was what he said true...are they really touchy about things? They do look a little angry...I'm sure most the people here heard about us being accepted into the exam right away and they are not happy about it either since it will lower their chances.'

Shaking her head she broke her thought and turned back to Kabuto who was answering something that Sakura had asked. "It's my seventh, well they are held twice a year so this will be my fourth year.

"Wow a veteran you must really be an expert by now." Sakura stated.

Toshiro had now stopped paying attention he was focused on Temari, he smirked as she noticed her eyes were on his but unlike his her's were serious. She shot him a dirty look but he didn't react he just simple smiled before turning away, back to that Kabuto guy reaching for something from his pouch. "I can help you kids out a little...with my ninja info cards."

"What the heck are those?" Sakura asked.

"It's hard to explain but these cards have been chakra encoded with everything I've learned over the past four years. I've got more then two hundred of them." he placed the large deck on the ground. "So you see I have not been completely wasting my time, they may not look like much to the naked eye in fact they are blank." He placed his middle finger in the center of the card and on his other hand lifted two fingers as the card began to rotate. "Don't want just anyone seeing this stuff."

The rookies look on in silence as Kabuto used his chakra to reveal the hidden information on the card, the first card he showed showed how many genin and from what villages they came from.

Sand thirty-three, Rain twenty-one, Grass six, Waterfall six, Leaf ninety, and Sound three. For a total of one hundred and fifty-nine.

Kabuto explained why the Chunin exam is held like this with more then one other ninja villages and so they can regulate the total number of shinobi in each village and maintain a balance of power between the villages to prevent another war from breaking out. Kabuto placed his hand over the card and the card was blank again as he placed the card back on the deck.

"Do those cards of your's have info on any of the other candidates?" Sasuke asked.

Kabuto smirked, "They might, you have someone special in mind?"

"I might." he mumbled with a glare.

"Well I can't promise my information is complete or perfect but I can promise I have something on just about everyone...including you guys." Kabuto answered. "So go ahead, tell me everything you know about them. What they look like, where they are from, I should be able to figure it out."

"Gaara of the Desert and..." he paused for a second and glared at Koji. "Rock Lee of the Leaf."

"Well that's no fun you already know their names." Kabuto quickly sliced through his deck and pulled out two cards placing them down. "Okay first up is Rock Lee, the card spun just like the first until finally the information was revealed. The card listed his overall skill in Taijutsu but also his complete lack of ability in ninjutsu and genjutsu. It also revealed his mission count and teammates. Following that he placed the Gaara card down and reveal it's information, his stats were a total mystery but that wasn't the strange thing. He had completed a B ranked missions as a genin. Even Kabuto seemed to be taking back by this, "Their isn't a lot of information on this guy other then that he is a rookie from another land, but I do have this. Every mission he has gone on he has never been hurt not even a scratch."

"The dude has done a B rank as a genin and he has never been injured?!" Shikamaru asked.

"What's the deal with this guy?" Naruto asked.

Koji was quiet but inside he was worried, someone like that was never good news.

"From what I can tell all the villages have sent extremely skilled and gifted shinobi this time around. Of course the hidden Sound village is small and sprang up recently so no one knows anything about it. Those guys are a mystery. Well you get the point the exam is going to be intense this year." he stated lifting up all of his cards and placing them back in his pouch.

"So it would seem, it's almost enough to make you lose your confidence." Hinata said.

"It's a fine time to start thinking like that!" Ino stated.

"Do you really think it will be tougher this time?" Sakura asked.

"Oh yeah, in the four years I've been coming I've never seen a crop of genins with this much potential before." Kabuto answered.

Riku looked over to Naruto to see him almost bouncing, "Naruto are you okay?" she asked in a whisper.

Sakura placed a hand on his shoulder to show Naruto that she believed in him but he then shot up and pointed at the the other genin in the room looking at them, "My name is Naruto Uzumaki and I'm going to beat everyone of ya!" he declared with complete confidence as he smiled. "Believe it!"

"Hey! What is the idiot trying to do get us killed?!" Ino freaked out as she shouted at Sakura. "Tell your boyfriend to keep his big fat mouth shut!"

"Who's boyfriend?!" Sakura shouted back.

"Oh I forgot you can't get one!"

Toshiro quickly grabbed Ino and pulled her away, "Not the time or the place Ino."

Riku on the other hand laughed softly this was the Naruto she befriend and she was glad to see him as confident as always.

Kiba and Shikamaru complained to Naruto about his actions, as Sakura placed Naruto in a headlock and began to apologize to the large crowd of people. Koji on the other hand was focused on the Sound ninja, the suddenly vanished they were planning something. He watched as they were heading towards Kabuto, the first had a faceplate and spiked up black hair two kunais slipped into his right hand as he threw them at Kabuto forcing him to slide backwards to avoid them. The next one's face was almost covered in bandages as he threw a massive cross punch but Kabuto leaned back and dodged the punch. Suddenly his glasses shattered and he was on his knees throwing up.

"Write this on your card punk, the genin from the Sound village will be Chunin when this is over." the spiked hair one smirked as Naruto and Sakura helped Kabuto.

Koji felt like his body was about to act on it's only when suddenly the one with the bandaged face was in front of him. "Don't even think about it Uchiha."

Koji looked in the reflection of his head band and back at the other rookies, his sharingan had activated without him knowing and now in his right eye a second tomoe had appeared.

A large cloud of smoke suddenly appeared at the front of the room as thirteen uniformed peopled were there. "Alright you baby faced degenerates pipe down and listen up." The large man at the center ordered, his face scarred with a full headband that covered all of the top of his head. "It's time to begin, I am Ibiki Morino your proctor and from this moment...your worst enemy. First you candidates from the village hidden in the Sound knock it off, who told you that you could fight!? You want to fail before we have even begun?!"

"Sorry it's our first time, I guess we are just a little jumpy...sir." the bandaged one stated.

Ibiki smiled at his response knowing it was full of shit, "I will say this once, their will be no combat between candidates so no attacking each other without the permission of your Proctor and even then the use of fatal force is forbidden anyone who thinks of messing with me will be disqualified immediately...got it?" he tone was deadly serious as he stared into the sea of genin. The other Proctors laughed as Ibiki spoke up again, "Now if we are ready we will proceed to the first round of the Chunin exam. Hand over your paper work in return you will each be given a number, this number determined where you will sit. We will start the written test once you are all seated."

The groups have all been seated, luckily Riku and Toshiro were close by having gotten numbers seventy-three and eighty-three. Koji on the other hand was off on his own having drawn twenty-nine, Ibiki finally spoke as he tapped a piece of chalk against the blackboard at the front of the room. "Everyone eyes front, there are a few rules that you will be made aware of, and I will not answer any questions so you better pay attention the first time. Alright rule number one is this, the written part of the conducted on a point reduction system. Contrary to what you are used too you all begin the test with a perfect score of ten points. One point will be deducted for every question you get wrong so if you miss three your final score will be seven." Ibiki had written on the board two examples of how this would work.

"Rule number two, teams will pass or fail based on the total score of all three members."

Some genin gasped once they heard this as some began to whisper, soon Sakura opened her mother to protest. "What!? Wait a second you mean we all get scored as a team!?"

"Silence!...I have my reasons so shut up and listen. Rule number three, the sentinels you see positioned around the room are there to watch you carefully for any signs of cheating and for every incident they spot the culprit will lose two points from their score. Be warned their eyes are extremely sharp and if they catch you five times you will be dismissed before the tests are even scored. Anyone fool enough to be caught by the sentinels doesn't deserve to be here." Ibiki's tone never changed he was dead serious.

One of the sentinels spoke up, he looked like one of the kids that was blocking the fake room from before, "I've got my eye on you guys." he taunted.

"If you want to be considered shinobi then show us what excellent shinobi you can be." Ibiki had what could pass for a smile as he spoke that last sentence. "One more thing, if any candidate should get a zero on the test then the entire team fails. The final question will not be given out until fifteen minutes before the end of the exam, you will have one hour total."

The room fell silent as the clock tick was the loudest sound, "Begin!" Ibiki ordered starting the first exam of the Chunin exam.

No one wasted a moment as the sound of paper being turned over filled the room, Riku looked down at the first question. 'Okay I can do this Toshiro is smart he will be fine...but Koji and me...this isn't our strong point.' Riku exhaled to push the worry out of her mind as she attempted to answer what she could.

Toshiro looked up from his test so this thing was complicated even for him but right now he was fearful for his teammates, if he was going to struggle on this how would the others do. 'I...I could try to cheat.'

Koji stared at Ibiki for now, he hadn't even looked at a single question he was focusing on his words. 'A point system like this, to show them what we could do on a test like this...'