AUTHOR NOTE
This is my very first fic.
The long awaited chūnin exams starts now.
"Blah" talking.
'Blah' thinking.
"Blah" Bijū talking or jutsu move.
'Blah' Bijū thinking.
"Blah" Bijū talking to partner through their mind.
I do not own Naruto nor make a profit from this.
Chapter 15
"Hmmmph," Naruko moaned happily while opening her eyes.
Naruko took a little longer this morning to get ready. Walking out the room with a slightly bounce in her step and tails happily waving from side to side Naruko saw Kakashi sitting on the couch reading a scroll again.
"Ohayō Kakashi-nii," Naruko greeted happily while walking past Kakashi to get something to eat.
"Ohayo I take it that the date went well," Kakashi asked looking up at Naruko.
"Perfect," Naruko said with a happy sigh and sitting next to Kakashi with a bowl of cereal in her hands.
"That good huh?" Kakashi asked while still reading the scroll.
"I've never felt like this before, it feels…" Naruko said softly before trying to think of a word to describe what she is feeling.
"Indescribable?" Kakashi finishes the sentence for her.
"Yea it's indescribable," Naruko sighs happily.
"I told Sakura and left a note for Sasuke telling them that team meeting is at ten today," Kakashi informed Naruko.
"At ten? When does the chūnin exam start, it's supposed to be today right?" Naruko asked not knowing how this works.
"Yes but it only starts at three this afternoon," Kakashi says while getting off the couch.
"So late?" Naruko asked surprised that something like this starts so late.
"It normally starts at that time. I'll meet you at ten I have some place I need to be," Kakashi said before walking out the door.
A few minutes later Naruko walked down the stairs and saw Sasuke waiting for her at the bottom of the stairs. Naruko smiled brightly when she saw him and walked up to Sasuke.
"Ohayo Sasuke-kun," Naruko greeted happily.
Sasuke responded by cupping Naruko's face gently and giving her a breath taking kiss. Naruko's eyes widened from the surprise kiss before she closed her eyes and melted into the kiss while wrapping a tail around Sasuke.
"Ohayo," Sasuke greeted after ending the kiss.
Naruko flatted her eyes open before looking deeply into Sasuke's eyes with a small smile on her face.
"Wow… I can get used to that," Naruko said softly still somewhat dazed from the kiss.
"We still have an hour till team meeting, do you want to do anything?" Sasuke asked.
"Just relax at the training ground," Naruko answered.
"Sure," Sasuke says before taking hold of Naruko's hand and heading off to the training ground.
Naruko had a small blush on her face when Sasuke took her hand. Naruko used her tail that was still wrapped around Sasuke to pull him closer to her and wrapped a few more tails around him.
"I hope I didn't make you wait too long, I did take a bit longer to get ready this morning," Naruko said while turning her head to look at Sasuke.
"No I was a bit late myself," Sasuke replies shaking his head.
"Why did you go to the wrong house again?" Naruko teased.
"Haha, I just overslept a bit," Sasuke says defending himself a bit.
"Couldn't stop dreaming about me?" Naruko says in a slightly seductive voice.
"Yip," Sasuke replies back smoothly making Naruko giggle with a small blush in return at Sasuke's forwardness.
-Training ground 7-
Sasuke sat underneath a tree with Naruko resting her head on his shoulder. They had currently been there for about half an hour just enjoying each other's company and talking very now and then when Sakura had arrived for the team meeting.
Sakura had a small pry of jealousy in her, she had accepted that she might never get Sasuke but there was a little jealousy that she never got with Sasuke. Most of her jealousy was due to that she didn't have someone to love or to be loved by.
Sakura walked with a small genuine smile happy that Naruko had found someone knowing the hard life she had. Sakura really hoped that she too would find someone.
"You two seem a lot closer today. Did anything happen yesterday?" Sakura asked with a smirk seeing the two cuddling each other.
"Yea we went on a date yesterday," Naruko answered happily and sending a glance to Sasuke.
"And? Don't leave me hanging here, share some details here," Sakura said while leaning in, wanting to hear more.
"Well first he bought me a lovely dress then took me to Riverside Lodge for lunch…" Naruko started saying.
"Riverside Lodge? But that's like the best place to go, how did you get a reservation there?" Sakura burst out looking at Sasuke.
"The owner was my dad's best friend and best man. He knows me well so I asked him for a favour," Sasuke explained softly.
"You know the owner? Wow that's just wow," Sakura said surprised that Sasuke knew someone like that and was partly jealous she wasn't the one dating Sasuke.
"So are they as good as everyone says?" Sakura asked knowing that she won't be going to a place like that anytime soon.
"I only have one place to compare with but they did have really amazing food but I was sad that they didn't have ramen," Naruko said happily but pouting near the end.
"Ramen? Really? ramen," Sakura deadpanned she knew Naruko loved ramen but this was ridiculous.
"You go to the best restaurant around and you want ramen," Sakura said still deadpanning at Naruko.
"No I didn't want ramen I was just sad that they didn't offer ramen," Naruko said like it was no big deal which made Sakura sweat drop at Naruko.
"Besides your ramen addiction what else did you do?" Sakura asked wanting to get back to the topic of Naruko's date.
"We watched the new movie Fūuin-Hime. It was a good movie but the ninja adaptations were really funny," Naruko said with a laugh near the end.
"And what else," Sakura asked again.
"We walked around the park till around sunset where I showed Sasuke the best view in the village," Naruko said and resting her head back on Sasuke's shoulder.
"I know there is more," Sakura says no doubt knowing what happened.
"I had my first kiss," Naruko said softly with a blush.
"Awwwwww, how cute!" Sakura squealed making Naruko blush harder and avoid eye contact with Sakura.
"So that's what you meant by perfect," Kakashi said appearing from nowhere.
"Kakashi-nii!" Naruko said feeling embarrassed while Sakura got a bit of a fright of his sudden appearance.
"So here are the forms for the chūnin exam. If you wish to enter write your name and hand in the forms to room 301 at the academy by three this afternoon. Only you can decide if you want to enter," Kakashi said handing out forms and disappearing in a swirl of leaves.
"What do you think the exam is going to be like?" Sakura asked.
"Sasuke and I think that it might be something similar to the academy and genin test," Naruko answered.
"We'll have to wait and see. Sakura are you going to enter?" Sasuke asked.
"Yea, I feel like I can do it. But I will be honest if Kakashi hadn't trained us like he did I don't think I would of entered," Sakura replied.
"I know you can do it Sakura," Naruko said standing up shortly followed by Sasuke and Sakura.
"Guys let's make a promise, no matter what happens we will always be a team so let's do this together as a team," Naruko placing her hand face down in the middle of them.
"Team Seven," Sasuke said placing his hand on top of Naruko's.
"Team Seven," Sakura said placing her hand on top of Sasuke's.
"Team Seven," Naruko finished.
For the next two hours Team Seven remained in the forest coming up with possible scenarios and how they would deal with them as a team. They also came up with plans for when they needed to fight as they knew they no doubt will.
Naruko suggested that they arrive early so they can scope out the rest of the attendants so they know who to keep an eye out for. And so Team Seven headed for the academy.
-Few blocks away from the academy-
"BOSS!" a voice called out.
Team Seven turned to the sound of the voice.
"Konohamaru?" Naruko said seeing who it was.
"Boss, I did it. I ran five laps around the village," Konohamaru said excitedly.
"Hey don't forget us, we did it as well," a girl his age said next to him.
"Yea so did I," another boy next to Konohamaru said in a rather monotone voice.
"Oh? And who you two?" Naruko said looking between the new friends of Konohamaru.
"Udon," the boy answered.
"Moegi," the girl answered.
"And we are the Konohamaru corps," all three of them said.
"Konohamaru corps? So you can run five laps around the village?" Naruko asked.
"Naru-chan who are these kids?" Sasuke asked followed by Sakura asking the same thing.
"Naru-chan? Yo Boss who is this?" Konohamaru asked.
"These two are my teammates Sakura and Sasuke-kun. Sasuke-kun, Sakura this Konohamaru he wanted me to train him so I said that until he can ran five laps around the village I won't train him, though these two seemed to have joined in on this," Naruko said introducing them to each other.
"Sasuke-kun? Boss is he your… you know?" Konohamaru asked before pausing and showing his pinkie.
"Yes he is," Naruko said proudly while clinging on to Sasuke's arm who blushed slightly.
"Aww," Moegi squealed softly with a small blush.
"Well you don't seem like much," Konohamaru said after 'inspecting' Sasuke.
"I think he's cute," Moegi said softly making Konohamaru roll his eyes.
"Listen kid I don't care what you think of me," Sasuke said plainly.
"Yea yea. So Boss train us!" Konohamaru dismissed Sasuke with the wave of his hand before demanding to be trained by Naruko.
Sasuke's eye twitched at the casual dismissal.
"Oh I will train you alright but sorry Hamaru-chan it's the chūnin exam now so you will have to wait until after the exam," Naruko said while patting his head affectionately.
Konohamaru blushed a bit at the nickname and affection before nodding.
"I can't train you now, but for now double the laps around the village," Naruko said not leaving them with nothing to do.
"Yes Boss!" all three said saluting.
"Good luck boss show them what you're made of," Konohamaru said holding his thumb up.
"You bet I will," Naruko said also holding up her thumb.
Konohamaru and his gang said goodbye before heading off.
"Practicing to be a jōnin instructor already are we?" a new female voice said from behind Team Seven.
Team Seven turned around and saw their new Suna friends walking towards them.
"Gaara, Temari, Cat guy," Naruko cheered, happy to see them.
"Hey I have a name you know and it's not cat guy," Kankuro complained to which Naruko just stuck her tongue out playfully.
"Please don't tell me you are also entering the exam," Temari said with a bit of false hope while the group headed for the academy.
"You bet I am," Naruko replied with a grin.
Temari just shook her head while mumbling something about this not being fair.
"Gaara, how have you been? You getting alone with Shukaku?" Naruko asked Gaara.
"I have been much happier thanks to you. I don't know if we are getting along but he is talking and not trying to drive me mad," Gaara answered.
"That's good to hear and it will only get better from here, just don't give up," Naruko replied.
"It's good that you two are talking. Just remember he is just like any other living being with emotions and thoughts of his own. Deep down he is like us, lonely, judged and mistreated for something out of his control so you should also keep that in mind," Naruko said placing a hand on Gaara's shoulder.
"I see. Thanks for that I will be sure to remember it the next time we talk," Gaara says while thinking over what Naruko has said.
"We shall meet you inside. We going to stay here and see who else is entering this exam," Naruko says when they reached the entrance of the academy.
"Well then, see you soon," Gaara says before he enters the academy along with his siblings.
For the next two hours Team Seven sat in a nearby tree and take note of all the genins that are entering the exam. They take note of a few teams one being a team of Otogakure which got Naruko's blood to start boiling.
Another team from Amegakure Sakura said remembering the symbol she saw. Naruko was happy to see that Hinata, Shino and Kiba were entering as well. The rest they just ignored as they seemed rather mediocre and not worthy to take note of.
Naruko wasn't surprised to see Team Asuma arrive as late as they did but half expected Shikamaru not to enter at all. Then again Naruko knew his mother so there was no doubt he was forced to enter.
Naruko saw another team from Konoha to enter and unlike the rest this one did catch her attention. She was sure that the one in green is the one she sees most mornings with his dad or brother she didn't know which as they looked exactly the same expect one was an adult and the other was the kid who was around a year older than Naruko.
Naruko decided that they would follow them in which made Sasuke raise an eyebrow at Naruko.
"Who has your attention in this group they don't seem like much?" Sasuke asked following Naruko who jumped down from the tree.
"The kid in green. I see him most mornings while I go out for my daily hunt or run," Naruko answered when Sakura landed on the ground herself.
"He trains hard, really hard every morning like I do so make sure to keep an eye out for him," Naruko says while walking into the academy.
When they turned the corner on the second floor Team Seven saw the room 301 which they realised that there was a genjutsu up in the area. Walking in closer Naruko saw the kid in green get punched hard knocking him to the ground.
"Sasuke don't say anything about the genjutsu it might thin things out a bit," Naruko said knowing that Sasuke will mostly likely say something about the genjutsu to which Sasuke nodded.
"You don't need to punch him like that," the green kid female teammate said helping him up.
"No I don't but I felt like it," one of the two guys guarding the door said, they were about the same age as Naruko maybe a bit older.
"Your mean, please just let us through," she asks politely.
The guard that spoke brought his hand and swung it to strike the girl across the face. Naruko vanished and reappeared between the girl and the guard and catching the guard's arm with her right hand.
Everyone had wide eyes at the sudden appearance of Naruko. The girl and the guard were also very surprised, the guard more so at how Naruko had stopped his attack effortlessly.
"It's not polite to hit a girl you know especially one that is essentially your comrade," Naruko said with a growl.
The second guard dropped onto one of his hands before swinging around and aiming a kick at Naruko's head. Naruko was about to block it but stopped seeing the kid in green step in for her. The kid in green also suddenly appeared next to Naruko and stopped the kick with one hand.
This surprised a lot of people again as this kid was just being pushed around like a rag doll just a few moments ago.
'He's fast and strong blocking a kick like that. Yea keeping an eye on him was a good call' Naruko thought analysing the green kid.
'He's almost as fast as Naruko,' Sasuke thought agreeing with Naruko now that they should look out for him.
"Thank you for defending my team. It's only right I repay the same kindness," the green kid say making Naruko smile at his attitude.
"And I agree with her it's rude to strike a girl let alone your own ally," the kid said.
"Seems you have proven yourself worthy, fine we will let you through," the guard said standing back up after his leg was released and the other guard also dropped his hand.
"No need this isn't the correct room," Naruko said softly only letting the guards and the green kid along with his teammates to hear.
"So you noticed," the guard said.
"Yea including your henge," Naruko said softly only so the guards can hear and making their guards eyes go wide.
"I should go now," Naruko said walking off to her teammates.
"Hey you wait, what are your names?" a voice said that wasn't the girls or the green kids.
Team Seven turned around and saw the person who and spoken along with the girl and kid in green.
The person who spoke is a boy a year or so older than Naruko who has long brown hair with white pale eyes that reminded Naruko of Hinata. The boy is wearing a Konoha headband on his head, a light brown short sleeved shirt with a high collar and brown short pants and blue shinobi sandals.
His left arm and leg is completely covered in bandages. The girl on his left has brown hair tied into two buns on the sides of her head. She is wearing a pink sleeveless shirt with a darkish green pants that go down to her shins and blue shinobi sandals.
The kid in green is on the right of the first boy. He has black hair in a bob style with a white shiny section going around the crown of his head. He is wearing a full body green spandex with his blue Konoha headband as a belt and blue shinobi sandals.
Both of his arms are covered in bandages starting from his knuckles on his hands up to elbow. He has orange shin guards on his legs going from his knees to his sandals.
"Aren't you supposed to give your name before you ask someone else's name?" Sasuke asked not liking the attitude of the Hyuuga.
"You guys are a bunch of rookies' right? How old are you?" the Hyuuga asked.
"I don't have to answer you," Sasuke replies.
"Please forgive my teammates un-youthful kindness. My name is Rock Lee and this is TenTen and Hyuuga Neji," the boy in green said.
"Pleasure to meet you Lee-san. I'm Uzumaki Naruko, this is Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura," Naruko introduced herself while wrapping her tail around Sasuke's waist.
"Ahh yes Sakura-san. Let's go out together, I will protect you with my life," Lee said holding his thumb up and smiling with his glistening teeth showing.
"No… Way… You're lame," Sakura deadpanned making Lee become depressed.
"Sakura that was harsh," Naruko said sweat dropping at the harsh rejection.
"Sasuke I challenge you to a spar," Lee said challenging Sasuke.
"Lee! Fine whatever we will wait for you by room 301," TenTen said leaving along with Neji.
"Um sure," Sasuke said a bit confused by the sudden challenge.
"Your youthfulness shines bright," Lee said before getting into a stance.
"Wait you mean now?" Sasuke asked seeing him getting into a stance.
"Yes I want to spar now," Lee says nodding his head.
"Sorry Lee-san but it's the exam in a few minutes there is no time. After the exam I will take you on your challenge," Sasuke says apologetic.
"I see. I wish to challenge you and test myself," Lee says releasing his stance.
"If you really want to challenge yourself fight Naruko. She is much stronger than I am," Sasuke says while taking and holding Naruko's hand.
"Then I wish to test your youthfulness too," Lee said looking at Naruko.
"Oh I will show you my youthfulness!" Naruko exclaimed with a grin before Lee ran off.
-Entrance to room 301-
Team Seven got to the door of room 301 and saw Kakashi standing in front of it.
"I had no doubt all three of you would come, go on good luck. Be sure to win me some money," Kakashi said before disappearing in a swirl of leaves.
"Okay?" Sakura said confused a bit.
"Did he just place a bet on us?" Naruko asked with a twitch in her eye.
"Looks like it," Sasuke replied also a little confused but shrugged it off.
Naruko opened the door and walked in with her team and saw that the room was filled with people. Naruko could feel that Sakura was being intimidated by all the people looking at them so placed a hand on her shoulder to reassure her.
Sakura turned to Naruko and sent a thank you smile to her. Naruko returned the smile while gently squeezing Sakura's shoulder.
"Looks like we aren't the only rookies here," a voice called out from their right making Team Seven seek out the source.
"Hinata!" Naruko squealed before running and hugging Hinata and wrapping her tails around her.
"Naruko," Hinata returned the hug happy to see Naruko who she sees as her best friend.
"Naruko? Since when did you get into cosplay," Kiba asked seeing Naruko's ears and tails, finding it rather hot and sexy on Naruko.
"Kiba I don't think she is into cosplay. Why? Because they are real and she has had them when I first met her in the academy," Shino responded in a plain tone.
"He is right Kiba they're real. I can tell" a voice said that Naruko didn't recognised which made Naruko turn to it and it come from Kiba making her really confused
"Really?" Kiba asked looking up to Akamaru that was on top of his head.
"Shino you knew? And who else said that it was real?" Naruko turned to Shino with wide eyes while releasing Hinata from the hug and trying to find who spoke earlier.
"Yes I did but I never said anything. Why? Because you were hiding them," Shino said with a nod of his head.
"Wait can you understand Akamaru?" Kiba asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Huh?" Naruko asked confused.
"He means me, can you understand me?" the voice said again which came from Kiba's direction.
"Yea I can understand you but who is speaking?" Naruko asked a bit confused.
"Um Naruko that was Akamaru and how can you understand him?" Kiba asked as there was no doubt that she could understand Akamaru.
Hinata, Shino and the rest of Team Seven where surprised by Naruko talking to Akamaru.
"I don't know, I didn't know I could until now," Naruko said looking at Akamaru.
"Kiba I don't think she is human she smells too much like a fox, surely you notice it as well?" Akamaru barked out.
"Naruko are you secretly an Inuzuka like me?" Kiba asked.
"No and Akamaru is right I'm a hanyou not human," Naruko said lowering her voice a bit.
"Naruko I also knew about your tails and like Shino I didn't say anything about them," Hinata said hugging Naruko.
"Thank you Hinata," Naruko thanked returning the hug.
"You know Naruko we are a lot more open minded than the rest of the villagers," another very familiar voice said from behind Naruko.
"Shika!" Naruko exclaimed happily.
"Of course you're here caught up in this troublesome exam," Shikamaru sighed.
"This just got a lot more troublesome with you in it," Shikamaru mumbled but loud enough for them to hear.
"Looks like we are all here, the rookie nine yea I like it," Kiba said with a grin.
"Sasuke-kun!" Ino squealed and latched onto Sasuke from behind and hugging him.
"Hey get off me!" Sasuke complained.
"Awww don't you miss me?" Ino said in a cute voice.
"Ino get your hands off him!" Naruko said walking up to Sasuke and freeing him from Ino and wrapping all of her tails around Sasuke and pulling him into a side hug.
"Why should I?" Ino asked in a challenging voice.
"Because they are dating Ino-buta, now leave them alone!" Sakura shot back with a tick mark on her head defending for Naruko.
Ino sent a very hard glare to Naruko who brushed it off not caring in the least.
"You guys should keep it down you making people get agitated," another voice called out.
The rookie nine all turned eyes to the voice. This person was about five or six years older than them. He has silver long hair tied in a ponytail and black eyes. He is wearing a Konoha headband and glasses.
He is also wearing a light brown short sleeved shirt with a purple sleeveless vest with a light brown cloth around his waist using it as a makeshift belt. To complete the outfit he is wearing purple pants and black shinobi sandals.
Naruko immediately went on guard and growled a bit loudly as this guy reeked of snakes just like Orochimaru did. Sasuke, Shino, Kiba and Shikamaru heard the growl from Naruko that was aimed at this strange guy which also got them on guard as Naruko isn't one to do something like this.
"You guys just came out the academy right? This isn't a picnic you know," the guy said.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Ino said already hating this guy.
"Kabuto, but forget me look behind you," Kabuto said pointing in their direction.
They all turned and saw that the whole room was glaring at them hard and releasing their killing intent trying to scare them. Sakura, Ino and Hinata gulped feeling the effects of the killing intent. Sakura turned to Naruko and saw that she was shaking slightly.
'Naruko's scared?' Sakura thought.
"Kurama mind helping me here bit?" Naruko asked Kurama.
"Let's see who pisses themselves," Kurama said with a grin.
The rookie nine suddenly felt the killing intent on them stopping, and was replaced with Naruko's growling which is loud enough for the whole room to hear.
"Oi shit heads, fuck off!" Naruko growled in her demonic voice while her eyes flashed red and releasing a lot of killing intent instantly making a lot of people start to sweat and almost shit themselves at the voice and killing intent coming off of Naruko.
Gaara and his siblings smirked at Naruko's reaction while Lee and his team felt the full effects from Naruko. Lee wasn't sure what to think of Naruko after pulling that off while TenTen became quite scared of Naruko. Tough Neji remained unfazed by it.
"Like I said troublesome," Shikamaru said shaking his head.
"Holy shit, remind me not to piss you off," Kiba said hearing Naruko's voice and feeling quite intimidated.
"Well that was your first, my first time didn't work out so well," Kabuto said.
"Is this your second time?" Ino asked Kabuto.
"No it's my seventh. This is held twice a year and this is my fourth year," Kabuto explained.
"So you must know a lot about this?" Sakura asked.
"I doubt that, you must suck if you have failed so many times," Naruko deadpanned.
"Maybe but I do have info cards," Kabuto said while showing a deck of cards.
"Info cards?" Sakura asked a little confused.
"Yes using my chakra I have created cards on all the ninja's attending this. Here let me show you," Kabuto said crouching down and placing a card on the ground before sending his chakra into it.
A few seconds later the card poofed and a map of the elemental nation appeared along with a graph underneath it on the card.
"This has the number of attendants and a breakdown of what country they are from," Kabuto explained.
"Thirty teams from Sunagakure no Sato, twenty one from Amegakure no Sato, six from Kusagakure no Sato, six from Takigakure no Sato, eight seven from Konohagakure no Sato and even though there a new village Otogakure no Sato have sent one team," Kabuto explained.
"Do you have info on individuals?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes I do they aren't perfect but I do. So who do you want info on?" Kabuto asked.
"Hyuuga Neji and Rock Lee," Sasuke said.
"Uzumaki Naruko," Kiba added making Naruko look at Kiba.
"Oh so you know their names?" Kabuto asked while removing three cards from the list and placing on the ground with a picture and stats of the people on them.
"Hyuuga Neji. Teammates Rock Lee and TenTen and their sensei is Maito Gai. Twenty eight d-rank and sixteen c-rank missions. Like you guys this is their first time doing the exam."
"Neji is very talented in taijutsu, ninjutsu is unknown and genjutsu is unknown. Considered as the prodigy of the Hyuuga clan. Has the title 'Rookie of the Year' for his age group," Kabuto explained what was on the card.
"Rock Lee all team and mission stats are the same. Taijutsu has greatly increased over the last year, has no talent in ninjutsu or taijutsu and not much else," Katubo told them about Lee.
"Uzumaki Naruko, teammates Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura under the sensei Hatake Kakashi. 40 d-rank, 1 c-rank, 1 b-rank, 3 a-rank missions impressive… what the 1 s-rank mission. How did you get that?" Kabuto asked.
The rest of the rookie nine were really surprised except for Team Seven.
"The last mission my team was on was ranked s-ranked," Naruko said not going to give more on it.
"Why am I not surprised?" Shikamaru said shaking his head.
"And your states are impressive, highly talented in ninjutsu and taijutsu is quite high. Though you have no talent in genjutsu. And there are a few additional notes here, extremely high chakra and stamina levels, strength is close to that of Tsunade-Hime and is very fast," Kabuto told what as on the card.
"So it's not that I suck it's just that there are a lot of exceptional ninja's here," Kabuto said putting his cards away and standing up.
"He knows a lot kit and his scent is just like that other snake bastard. You must keep a very close eye on him I can sense evil from this guy," Kurama warned.
"Yea I know, he knows way too much for any genin no matter how many times they've done this," Naruko replied back to Kurama.
Naruko and Sasuke saw three people rushing to Kabuto but didn't react wanting to see what they plan was while Naruko also wanted to prove something. A ninja, with a weird metal thing on his arm with holes in it, went right for Kabuto.
The ninja is wearing a fur cloak and his face is covered in bandages only leaving his left eye visible. The ninja took a wide swing at Kabuto who managed to jump back in time to dodge the attack. Few seconds late his glasses cracked and he buckled over while holding back the erg to throw up.
As soon as the attack finished Naruko had to close her eyes and ears as she heard a loud piercing whistle and made her a bit dizzy in the process.
"Ahh my ears," Naruko said rubbing her ears.
*POOF*
"Thanks for waiting. I am Morino Ibiki, the examiner for the chūnin selection exam's first test," a voice said as group of Konoha chūnin and jōnin appeared in a poof of smoke.
"Listen well. The will be no unauthorised fighting and even if permission is giving killing will not be tolerated. You got that Otonin?" Ibiki said.
"Yes sorry about that we are just very excited for this exam," the Otonin said.
"The pigs who disobey me will fail immediately, got that?" Ibiki said with cold dead eyes scaring a few people.
"Let's start the exam. Each of you will be given a number and you will sit at your corresponding number, then we will hand out the exam," Ibiki explained.
"Awww come on a paper test? Really?" Naruko complained while Sakura tried to reassure Naruko.
"Good luck Naru-chan," Sasuke said before bringing Naruko in for a kiss and held it until they were out of breath.
Sakura and Hinata blushed hard while Ino also blushed but was very jealous and mumbling about how unfair it was.
"Come on you lovebirds get to your sits," Ibiki said trying to break them apart.
"Good luck Sasuke-kun," Naruko said flattering her eyes open from the kiss.
-20 minutes later-
"While the tests are being handed out I will explain the rules," Ibiki said, once everyone settled and got to their seats, while turning around and writing the rules on the board.
"Rules?" a voice called out.
"Yes rules now shut up and listen," Ibiki said.
"Damn why did it have to be a stupid test," Naruko complained again.
"Naruko lets do our best," Hinata said softly who was sitting next to Naruko.
"Hinata! At least I'm not alone. Sure let's do this thing," Naruko exclaimed.
"Rule one: You will start off with ten points. Every question you get wrong you will lose a point. So if you get two wrong you get eight points or if you get five wrong you get five points," Ibiki explained the first rule.
"Second rule: This is a team test so whether you pass will determine on your teams combined score. So each team which competes can hold on to from the initial team score of thirty," Ibiki explained.
"WHAT! Why is this a team test?" someone shouted out.
"Shut it! You don't have the right to question me. There is a reason for this so be quiet and listen," Ibiki replied back in an authoritative voice.
'No questions and what are with these rules?' Sakura thought.
"The most important rule: Anyone caught cheating by the testing officials will have their points deducted by two for every offence," Ibiki explained.
"And the final rule: Those that lose all their initial points will fail along with their two teammates," Ibiki said making a few people shout out and complain.
Naruko dropped her head on the desk, this was not going well, she was pretty sure if she wasn't as close to her teammates like she was they would no doubt want to kill her right now.
"Shut it! The exam lasts for one hour. Begin," Ibiki said starting the exam.
Naruko read over the questions and realised that she couldn't answer any of them and she even made sure to study during her training sessions. Naruko started to freak out when half an hour had passed by. Naruko figured out the test ten minutes in but she didn't know how to pull it off.
'I know that the whole point of this is to cheat and gather information without being caught but I don't have anything. Sasuke-kun has his Sharingan, Sakura is smart and will no doubt get this. Kiba has Akamaru but he is too far away for me to hear. Hinata has her Byakugan," Naruko thought.
"I know I have you Kurama but I need to do this on my own. Should I bet everything on this last question?" Naruko debating whether she should bet it all on the last question that is supposed to be told forty five minutes in.
One by one, team after team were told to leave the room for failing the first exam. Hinata offered to show Naruko her paper which Naruko was going to take a look but didn't due to the kunai that went flying passed her head.
The guy right behind ended up being thrown out the room as he challenged Ibiki saying that they didn't know what they were doing. This stopped Naruko from getting Hinata and their teams in trouble. Naruko noted that it was time for the final question.
"So you finished playing with your doll?" Ibiki said, Naruko turned and saw Kankuro entering the room, with a test official behind him, with wide eyes at being caught.
"Bah, just sit down its time for the last question," Ibiki said bringing relief to Kankuro.
"Before I give the last question there is one last rule that comes with the question," Ibiki said making a few raise an eyebrow.
"Last rule?" a few people called.
"Yes now pay attention. You must decide whether you take the question or not," Ibiki said confusing everyone.
"What happens if we don't take it?" Temari shouted out.
"You fail which means so does your team," Ibiki said coldly.
"Of course we will take the question," Kiba shouted out.
"And now for the rule: If you choose to take it and that person answers it incorrectly… That person will lose the right to take the chūnin selection exam again," Ibiki said making a lot of eyes go wide before some people outraged at it.
"WHAT KIND OF BULLSHIT IS THIS? THERE ARE GUYS WHO HAVE TAKEN THIS EXAM MORE THAN ONCE!" Kiba shouted angrily at Ibiki.
"Hahahahahaha," Ibiki laughed.
"Well, you guys are the unlucky ones. This year it's my rules. But I am giving you a way out. You can choose to leave now and take the test again next year," Ibiki said with a cold glare.
"So if one of your teammates refuses to take the question your whole team fails but if you take it and get it wrong you will be a genin forever. Naruko you must be stressing right now," Sasuke taught while looking at Naruko.
"Oh shit what do I do?" Naruko thought starting to freak out.
At this point one person decided to leave which made a lot more leave.
"Naruko you no doubt struggled to answer these question hell I couldn't answer shit on my own. I know our promise is to do our best in this exam but I won't let my greed of wanting to be promoted be at the cost of you dream." Sasuke thought.
"You are no doubt thinking of us at this point. Naruko your only dream is to be accepted by this village and to become Hokage. Sorry Naruko but I won't let your dream get crushed," Sasuke thought starting to raise his hand.
"Naruko you have always been there for me even after I treated you like shit during the academy. You've become my best friend. Forgive me Naruko but I will protect your dream," Sakura thought also starting to raise her hand.
Both Sasuke and Sakura were shocked and surprised to see Naruko's hand go up high into the air.
"Naruko you…" both Sasuke and Sakura thought at the same time with wide eyes.
*SLAM*
"Screw your rule! I will take the question I won't run away and I won't go back on my word. Even if I remain a genin I will still find a way to became Hokage dattebayo!" Naruko said after standing up and slamming her hand on the desk.
"I will say again fail and you will remain a genin, can you live like that for the rest of your life?" Ibiki asked Naruko.
"I won't run away. I follow my unbending words that is my ninja way!" Naruko said with smirk and confidence which brought a smile to Sasuke and Sakura's face while Sasuke shook his head feeling bad for ever doubting Naruko .
Hinata's eyes went wide at Naruko's declaration and really started to envy Naruko. The rest of the people in the room eyes' went wide at Naruko's determination and also were determined to take the question no matter the cost.
Shikamaru and Chouji also smirked at Naruko's stunt while Lee gained great respect for Naruko's bright shining youthfulness as he put it. Ibiki looked around the room and saw that all the remaining people all had confident smirks on their faces and even the test officials had smiles on their faces.
'She really is an interesting one. She has blasted everyone's fears and doubt away. She will be a force to be reckoned with,' Ibiki thought while looking at Naruko who was looking right back at him.
"If no one else is going to leave than all I have left say to you is: Well done to the twenty six teams left you all pass the first exam," Ibiki said confusing a lot of people.
"Huh/What?" a lot of people called out.
"What happened to the tenth question?" Sakura asked.
"There was no such thing or rather you could say that the choice was the tenth question," Ibiki said with a smile completely changing is personality.
"Then what were the first nine questions for?" Temari burst out.
"They served their purpose. They were there to test you information gathering skills in a stressful environment. A lot of you must have quickly gathered that you couldn't answer any of the questions so you had to resort to cheating," Ibiki explained.
"Those that were caught cheating failed naturally. Information is more important than life, and on a mission people will risk their lives to get it. If you get caught or noticed there is no guarantee that the information will be accurate," Ibiki said while taking his bandanna off and showing the burn marks on scars on his bold head.
A lot of people were shocked to see this and were quite disgusted by it.
"Remember this people will do anything to get information as it is a very powerful weapon for your village. Those that got caught cheating don't have the right to be here," Ibiki lectured.
"As for the tenth question it was a take or not take question. Choose not to take it you fail but can try again next year, or choose it and you risk losing the right to become chūnin, a true leap of faith," Ibiki said after putting his bandanna back on.
"Say you become chūnin as your team is giving the mission to steal a scroll. You don't know anything about the enemy, their numbers, abilities and locations are all unknown to you and of course there could be traps," Ibiki set out a scenario.
"Do you choose to accept the mission or not accept it? Can you avoid this mission, the death of you comrades? The answer is no, you can't avoid a mission like this. The ability to be courageous and survive any hardships is the ability need to become a chūnin captain," Ibiki continued his lecture.
"Those pieces of trash that rely on the fact that there is a next year and walk away for another chance have no right to be here. That's how I feel," Ibiki explained.
As soon as Ibiki finished something come crashing in through the side window in front of the class. Instantly a banner with the name Mitarashi Anko on it opened up and was pinned to the ceiling with a pair of kunais.
Anko stood in front of the banner with a smirk on her face while Ibiki appeared from behind the banner.
"I am Mitarashi Anko the examiner for the second exam!" Anko shouted out.
"You need to learn to read the atmosphere," Ibiki said shaking his head.
"This examiner is Naruko-ish," Sakura deadpanned with a sweat drop behind her head.
"Gahh damn it's that crazy lady!" Naruko thought loudly in her mind.
"…"
"Oi Ibiki there are twenty six teams left. Your test must have been way too easy," Anko said with a tick mark while looking at Ibiki.
"No this year has a lot of talent," Ibiki replied back unfazed by Anko.
"Whatever it doesn't matter. I will just have to cut them down by half at least," Anko said with a grin.
'In half?' Sakura thought with a raised eyebrow.
"Listen you maggots report to training ground forty four tomorrow at 0900 hour sharp. If you late you will fail before the second exam even starts," Anko said.
The room quickly emptied before Anko left herself. Ibiki started to collect the papers around the room he come to Sakura's paper and was a bit surprised.
'I know for a fact that this girl didn't cheat and yet she answered all the questions correctly. She is already smarter than most chūnin,' Ibiki thought before moving on and arriving to Naruko's paper which made his eyes go wide.
'She actually passed with a blank paper. She really is an interesting person. No wonder why the Daimyō choose her,' Ibiki thought remembering that Naruko was requested to look after the Daimyō's daughter a while back.
Ibiki smirked before leaving the room thinking that with no doubt Naruko will turn the world upside.
Chapter 15
So another long chapter and the first exam has ended. Wonder what will happen next chapter. You know the urge to put in a filler chapter like they did in anime is very tempting.
kurayami Kazuo Riddle: Yea sure I will do that. I will post it up with the next chapter so I can take the time to get the states as accurate as I can. And yes Sakura and Sasuke know that Naruko is a jinchuriki but they only partly know what it is or means.
RoseeAnn: Sorry you don't like the paring but someone is bound to not like something. Though I am happy you like the chapter.
So all those that answered the question of harem no harem all said no harem. So at this rate it's no harem but I will still leave the question open until I release the next chapter.
Please note I will be going on a four-five day holiday so I won't release a chapter most until next Monday or Tuesday.
