The Exam Begins…
Team 7 waited for a certain late jounin at the bridge. Sakura bothered Naruto about his black eye but then it disappeared. Thanks to the Kyuubi. "Yo…" They turned to see Kakashi with Icha Icha Paradise in his hand.
"You are late!" Sakura yelled like a banshee.
Naruto covered his sensitive ears. "Tell us what we are going to do today."
"Hnn.." Sasuke said.
"Well…I nominated you guys up for the Chuunin exams."
"EHHH?" Each of them have different faces on.
'Shit…I need to see jiji-sama on this….Might as well do it.' Naruto was expressionless.
'I'm going to hold both of them back. Not good!' Sakura has panic written all over her face.
'Yes…I'm going to show all of them how strong I am.' Sasuke had a small smirk.
"Here are the applications. Whether or not you want to take it is up to you. If you want to take it, sign them and turn them in at room 301 at 4 pm tomorrow. Ja Ne." Kakashi disappeared a cloud of smoke.
"I'm out of here." Sasuke walked away leaving Sakura and Naruto.
Everyone watched at three kids running. "Hey watch it!" "Whoa kid slow down!" "You almost ran over my foot!" Konohamaru found who he was looking for. Naruto turned to see Konohamaru coming towards him. Sakura is thinking about what to do without Sasuke around. She didn't notice them.
"Nii-san! We were looking for you." He yelled.
Naruto grinned. "You should not run in the street."
"Like I can listen to y- oof!" His friends stopped to see a man with purple face paint. A girl with blond hair with a huge fan on her back stood next to him. The man picked Konohamaru by the shirt. "That hurt brat."
"Kankuro we don't want to cause any trouble without him around." The girl said.
Kankuro just shrugged. "It wouldn't hurt to play a little."
He pulled back his arm for a punch. A hand squeezed his wrist causing him to let go. Konohamaru expected to land on the ground but he was caught by someone. He opened one eye to see Naruto. "Thanks."
Naruto dropped him on the ground. "You are from Suna, huh? I bet that you don't know the rules here. You wouldn't want to pick a fight with someone and hurt the hokage's grandson would you?"
Kankuro had a look of surprise. Sakura know paid attention with her mouth agape. "You piss me off, blondie." He finally said.
Naruto smirked. "Either you walk away right now, or face me, clownface-chan."
"What did you say?" The Suna nin was in the edge of pummeling him.
The blond made an innocent face. "Obviously you are deaf. You have more make-up than a girl. Clownface-chan…"
Kankuro gritted his teeth. "You could talk back at me, tell me I'm deaf, but nobody insults my face paint!"
"It is true." The girl restrained the man from gutting the boy.
"Let me at him, Temari! Just one hard punch!"
'I sense somebody sinister.' ' It's Shukaku the Ichibi….' A voice said in his head. 'Thanks a lot Kyuubi…' Naruto turned to the tree. "Why hello…It's a pleasure meeting you, tanuki."
A red haired boy was standing upside down from a tree branch. There was a huge gourd on his back plus the kanji for love on his forehead. He had slight surprise on his face but it quickly went to emotionless.
"Gaara…" The man gulped.
"You are an embrassment to our village. Let's go."
Naruto narrowed his eyes. "Tell me your name, tanuki."
"Shubaku no Gaara. Yours?"
"Naruto Uzumaki the kitsune-baka." He chuckled.
Gaara understood what he meant while everyone else looked in confusion. "I'll be looking forward to seeing you." The three left.
Naruto kept staring at their backs. 'I didn't expect him to be there…'
"That was so cool! See what did I tell you?" Konohamaru said to a girl.
"Who are your friends?"
"I'm Moegi!" The girl said.
"My name's Udon." The boy adjusted his glasses.
In a tree, Sasuke saw the whole thing. 'Subaku no Gaara….That dead last…there is more to him than we know it….'
Naruto went pass the lady at the front desk. She nodded and continued her work. It is no surprise about the boy going to the hokage's office since he goes there a lot. As he walked the hallway, he thought about the Suna nin.
The hokage looked up from his paperwork when there was a knock at the door. "Come in…I knew you were going to talk to me about the exams."
Naruto walked in. "Heck yes…"
"I swear everytime you visit I don't get anything much done."
"I'll have to take the exams anyway right? I may be captain but I'm not technically a chuunin or jounin…"
Sarutobi got his pipe out. "Do you really think we have to talk about this?"
"Well…."
"If you make chuunin, it's fine. You wouldn't want to let your team down. Don't show how strong you really are. It will make some people suspicious." He put it in his mouth.
Naruto smirked. "Well that's unfair jiji-sama. I know what to do and I could beat those genin."
"I know… but you have to take it one day. It's better to get it over with."
"When can I tell everyone my identity so I don't have to go through this…" He pouted.
"When the time is, right you could do whatever you want. Report to me if there is anything amiss and any suspicious characters. Bye." The Sandaime signed some papers.
"Do I count?" Naruto joked.
"Go away or else I'll double your paperwork!" He rushed out the door.
Naruto visited Anbu headquarters before heading to the academy. Urufu groaned. "Noooo!! Don't leave us here!"
The blond put a hand through his hair. "Well you are second in command…."
She pointed to the tower of paperwork. "You leave me with this?"
"It's just mission reports and stuff. Then, give it to jiji-sama and he will put stamps of approval or what ever the hell he does."
"Kami, I think I respect hokage-sama even more."
"Don't worry I'll have Yamato-san help you….and Kuma-san. If you want get Kame to do it."
Urufu sighed. "Have fun…."
"It's only for a few days….but it depends on Anko and Ibiki." He shuddered.
"I feel sorry for the genin…" Urufu whispered.
Naruto left the headquarters. 'I'm late!' He shunshined to the academy at record time.
"Hey dobe over here…" He turned to see Sasuke and Sakura near the door.
They all went inside. A crowd gathered at the room. Two genin blocked the door and a boy wearing green spandex was on the floor. 'Please don't tell me he is Gai's student!' Naruto twitched. He then looked at the two. 'Izumo and Kotetsu?'
"Can you please let us through?" He said.
"We failed three times in this exam. We are actually doing you a favor." The 'genin' said.
Sasuke moved forward. "You know you should cut the g-" A hand covered his mouth.
"Well we shouldn't do this test then. We will fail hands down." Naruto said out loud pulling Sasuke in the back of the crowd. "Don't say anything. People who don't notice this is a genjutsu, shouldn't even try the chuunin exams. It cuts the competition. Let's go to the right floor." He whispered low enough for him to only hear.
Sasuke reluctantly agreed with the dead last. Sakura release killer intent but Naruto didn't notice. "Wait…." They turned to see a Hyuuga. "What's your name?"
"Isn't it rude to ask if you didn't introduce yourself first?" Sasuke said.
"My name's Neji Hyuuga."
"Sasuke Uchicha."
Naruto frowned. 'That guy just likes hearing his name.'
"My name is Rock Lee. You are Sakura right?"
In the background, you could her Naruto snickering. Sakura glared at the blond and then looked back at Lee.
"Let's go out together. I'll protect you until I die." Lee did a thumbs up.
The kunoichi turned pale. The blond was literally rolling on the floor with laughter.
"No….You are lame."
Lee hunched over and walk away. Then, he saw Sasuke. "No, you are not dating me…" He stared at the guy in spandex. They are in a huge room.
"Umm…no I want to fight you."
"Right now?"
"I want to test my techniques against you who is from a genius clan. Also…." He looked at Sakura. Lee blew a kiss to her. She narrowly avoided it and it hit the pillar. Naruto looked quizzingly at him. 'Is there such a jutsu for that? That's impossible!'
"I will show you that challenging me is a mistake." Sasuke immediately went to his fighting stance.
'I'm going to go against the number one rookie!' "Let's go…"
"Make it quick Sasuke." Naruto turned to give them some room. "We have to still go to the meeting."
"Don't worry I get this done in five minutes." Sasuke charged at Lee.
"Konoha Senpuu!" He did a kick but Sasuke can't dodge so he blocked.
'Shit.' The kick went through and hit him in the face. The Uchicha skidded ten feet away.
"Sasuke!"
"As expected for Gai's student…." Naruto watched the fight.
"Naruto?" Sakura looked at him in surprise. 'I never saw him this serious before. It's like he is a different person. Oh well…I don't care.'
"Sharingan." Sasuke's eyes are red with two tomoe in each eyes.
'What a cheat of a bloodline.' The blond thought. Lee kicked his jaw from below. "I bet you're thinking it is a genjutsu or a ninjutsu but it is…"
"Taijutsu…my techniques are mostly taijutsu. Simple, right? You can see it with your Sharingan but you can't react to it." He appeared below him. "Konoha Kage Buyou."
A pinwheel whizzed by and hit his wrappings. It struck the wall keeping Lee from doing anything. "You broke the rules." A turtle was in the other side of the room. "That technique is forbidden."
Smoke appeared and it revealed to be a jounin version of Rock Lee. "You fool!" He punched Lee.
"Sorry, Gai-sensei!"
"I know you broke my rules but you'll be punished after the exam. 500 laps around training grounds." They had chibi tears and even (gulp) hugged.
'Nooo…not again! Don't yell! Don't yell.' Naruto felt like he wanted to die then and there.
'Ahhh! My eyes!' Sakura covered her eyes.
'That's freakin' gay!' Sasuke put his hands over his ears.
"You guys look like those three monkeys." The turtle commented. "Speak no Evil..."
"That's evil right there!" Naruto yelled.
Gai noticed the three and appeared behind them. "You are Kakashi's students. I'm am stronger than him though."
'So fast! It's not human!' Sasuke mentally yelled.
"The Yondaime is twice as fast as you, Gai. Come on we are going to be late." Naruto was already half way across the room.
"NANI? You are like my eternal rival!"
"You said something?"
"NANI!?"
Team 7 reached room 301. Kakashi was by the door. "Everyone is here. Good luck, I'm proud of you guys."
"Thanks, sensei."
The three entered the doors. They were surprised to see how many people participating in the exam. "You're late Sasuke-kun!" Ino wrapped here arms around Sasuke's neck.
"Get off of him, Ino-pig!" Sakura yelled causing everyone to look their way.
"Oh look it's big, ugly forehead girl."
"What the f#&k did you say bitch!"
Naruto hid behind Shikamaru and Chouji. "How do we deal with them?"
"I don't know. It's so troublesome…"
"Yahoo! We are all here!" Kiba came with his team, Shino and Hinata.
"Hey, you guys bring too much attention to yourself." A silver haired genin said.
"Who might you be?"
"I'm Kabuto."
"How many times did you enter this exam?" Sakura asked.
"This is my seventh time. Chuunin exams have been held twice a year so this is my fourth year."
"Wow…You seem to know a lot about this exam."
"Well, I'm going to be generous to show you my nin-cards. It may appear blank but it has four years worth of info." Kabuto stated.
'Interesting…' Naruto thought. 'I got to look into this. This man reeks of snakes.'
"All I have to do is focus my chakra in it and see the information on the card." He tapped a card and a graph appeared.
"Do you have any with info on individuals?" Sasuke stepped up.
"Sure."
"Gaara of Suna, Rock Lee of Konoha, Neji Hyuuga and…."
"….Naruto Uzumaki of Konoha." "You know their names. That's no fun. Why do you need to know about your teammate?" Kabuto took out four cards.
Naruto had a smug look on his face. "Wow, I'm honored."
"First off, Rock Lee. He's a year older than you guys. He completed 20 D rank and 12 C rank missions. His taijustu skills are impressive but genjutsu and ninjutsu are below average. His sensei is Gai and his teammates are Neji Hyuuga and TenTen."
"Neji Hyuuga. He accomplished the same amount of missions as Lee. He relies heavily on his Byukugan. He belongs to the Branch family. That is really all I know about him."
"Subaku no Gaara. He did 8 C rank and…1 B rank! I don't have that much on him but he returned from all the missions without a scratch."
Naruto whistled. "To be able to go to a B rank mission is impressive."
"Naruto Uzumaki. He completed about 7 D rank and 1 C rank that turned out to be an A rank mission. In that mission, he killed about twenty people effortlessly only using his weapon. He has an abnormal amount of chakra for a genin. Other stats are a mystery."
Naruto smiled like he tasted something good but then had a look of surprise in his face. "It must be a mistake. When I woke up, I was knocked out by an Anbu member and he disguised himself as me. I don't have the guts to kill someone or a little rabbit."
"Whatever…"
"I really want to fight you now!" 'Sucker.'
"Sure, I'll look forward to fighting you." 'Dammit.'
A man with bandages on his face and fur on his back is behind Kabuto. He tried to punch him with this weird arm but he dodged it. His glasses cracked.
"He dodged but why did his glasses break?" Sasuke asked no one in particular.
Kabuto froze but then threw up. Naruto felt slightly dizzy and staggered a bit. Akamaru whined and Kiba felt it slightly. "Akamaru said that guy uses sound vibrations from his arm."
The Rookie 9 kept watching the Sound nin. There was an explosion and chuunin proctors appeared along with a man with scars on his face.
"My name is Morino Ibiki, the examiner, for the first test."
"We are in a whole lot of shit right now since Ibiki is the examiner…." Naruto whispered. "….but for me I can tolerate it."
Konoha Senpuu/ Leaf whirlwind
Konoha Kage Buyou/ Leaf Shadow Dance
Yippie! I'm sorry some of you guys didn't get what you want but thanks for voting!
Tenten/IIIIII
Hinata/III
Sakura/0
Ino/I
Tayuya/III
OC/IIII
"I wonder how Kitsune-kun does it." Yamato sighed organizing the fifth pile.
Thanks to Kuma's strength he carried the papers to the 'Done' pile.
"He's still a kid. This is child labor!!" Urufu said.
"He has been doing this since he was eight."
"He makes it look easy when he does it!"
"Probably a Kage Bunshin." Yamato said.
"Of course, why didn't we think of that!"
"Maybe because of the documents get to your head. Seriously they turn your brain to mush." Kuma put his hands to his hips.
"Wow that's the first and longest sentence you said since the beginning of this fic." Urufu patted his back. "Now back to work!"
"Nani?"