A/N: You know, I was planning on posting this saturday. I really was. But, well, some inspiration for something kinda attacked me (If you're a regular reader of mine, you're going to be happy soon), and I forgot all about it.

This snippit takes place during the first round of the chunin exams. As if you couldn't tell.

It is written by the fabulous Ant'Dog once again. Enjoy!

Trembling, Sakura raised her hand to bow out of the tenth question when -

"Wooooo!" Naruto stood up slowly. When he raised his head, Ibiki was surprised to see a calm expression on his face instead of the panicked or hostile glare the proctor was expecting.

Elsewhere in the room Chouji sighed happily and opened up another bag of chips, settling in to enjoy the show. He had no idea what was coming next, but when Naruto got 'special' loud like this it was always entertaining.

"You think that you can scare us like that? Scare me? I've been in this business long enough to know that I can't give up on my dreams just like that. I won't! Do you know who I am? Do you?! I'm the 'Nature Boy' Uzumaki Naruto! 16-time Ichiraku's Customer of the Month! You expect me to run and hide from a piddly little statement like that? Me, the dirtiest player in the game? Wooooo!"

Naruto grinned as the gathered chuunin looked around wildly at his declaration of being 'The Dirtiest Player in the Game.' If he'd known that cheating was the point before the exam he could've set something up sooner to back up his claim, but just bluffing it to make the examiners sweat was fun too. He started to talk faster now, becoming more and more animated as he continued.

"All of you here," Naruto looked around at the crowd of genin, "All of you here want to make chuunin. All of you here want to be the best. All of you here want to be... the man! Wooo! Well, right now, you're LOOKING at the man. And I'm... not... going... ANYWHERE! If you want to be the man, you have to beat the man! Wooo!"

"So bring on your tenth question! Wooo! Hell, bring on a hundred more! Wooo! I'll never give up, not for ten, a hundred, a million questions! Wooo!
"You're not- Wooo!- going to beat me like that! Wooo! If you want me to quit this exam, you can pull my hitai-ate – Wooo!- from my cold, dead corpse because that is the ONLY WAY –Wooo!- that you will EVER –Wooo!- get me to stop going forward and becoming Hokage! Wooooooo!"

"Wooooo!" Heads turned to look at the source of the echo. Blushing until her face matched her hair Sakura sat back down, grinning sheepishly. But that is pretty damn catchy!

D-darn it, Sakura-san, thought a miffed Hinata, th-that should've been me backing up my Nature, er, N-Naruto-kun!

"So 'Nature Boy,' are you done yet?" asked an irritated Ibiki. Looking around the room, he sensed that no one else would raise their hand. 78 genin. 78! Mitarashi's gonna have a field day with this.

"Very well," he roared, "the rest of you here… PASS!" Ibiki started to explain the purpose of the tenth question to the assembled genin, but they were too busy watching Naruto bounce off the wall and strut in an orange feathered robe -the hell? Was he wearing that when he came in?- right up to an examiner. Naruto shouted, "Woooooo!" right in the flinching man's face, and this time more than a few of the assembled shinobi took up the cry.

Scowling, Morino Ibiki rubbed his scarred and pitted head. He felt a doozy of a headache coming on. He respected the Hokage greatly….

… but if Sarutobi ever asked him to proctor another exam Ibiki would stab his eyes out with a red-hot poker first.