Diclaimer: I do not own Naruto…If I did, then I would be very rich right now, not broke…oh well, I can still dream, can't I? XP

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"RING, RING, RING! RIIINNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG! "

"AAHH! SHUT UP YOU STUPID ANNOYING ALARM CLOCK!" Sakura screamed. She pounded the alarm clock with a fist, smashing the poor thing into a broken heap of plastic. Ren, who was already awake, sighed at the sight of her sister and the alarm clock.

"Sakura, wake up! We're going exploring today, remember?" Ren said as she yanked all the blankets off her sister.

"Ughhhh….Just five more minutes," Sakura moaned sleepily.

"Come on…We can make fun of Kankuro by hiding his 'doll' again," Ren pleaded.

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Pretty-please with a cherry blossom on top?"

"Oh, fine," Sakura gave in.

She quickly got dressed, brushed her teeth, and combed her hair. Ren did the same.

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"Oh my god. Did you see that guy? He looked like a total hobo in that suit!" Sakura laughed.

"I know! And did you see those kids at the academy yard? They looked like total idiots, with those goggles strapped to their foreheads!" Ren was giggling.

The two were laughing so hard, that they accidentally ran into Gaara.

"Ouch! What the heck? Watch where you're going you—oh, sorry Gaara! Didn't notice you there," Sakura said, rubbing her head sheepishly.

"It's okay. Hey, can I come with you guys? Kankuro, Temari and Tenshi abandoned me her," Gaara asked.

"Sure!" Ren said.

The three were walking when they saw a few figures up ahead. Even from a distance, they could see that Kankuro, Temari, and Tenshi were up ahead.

"You guys, let's sneak up on them. I'll find out what they're doing and you surprise them," Ren whispered.

Gaara and Sakura sighed. "Fine," they said in unison.

Ren smiled and started walking toward the others.

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Kankuro was holding a kid by his shirt, while two other kids were crying and two other guys, one with blonde hair and the other with black hair were trying to make him put the kid down. Temari sand Tenshi were just watching the whole scene with amused smiles.

"Hey! Let me go!" a kid with goggles was saying.

"Not until you apologize you runt!" Kankuro smirked. "You're gonna—OUCH! What the hell!" A stone hit his hand. He looked up. A boy, sitting in a tree, was lazily tossing a stone between his hands.

"I don't like idiots wearing make-up," the raven haired boy smirked.

"Hey! What are you doing here Sasuke?" the blonde teen asked.

"Come down here you little brat!" Kankuro was fuming. He began to take the wrappings off of his puppet (coughdollcough). "I'm gonna teach you a lesson that you'll never forget!"

"Kankuro!"

"Huh? Oh hey Ren! Want to watch me beat up these losers?" Kankuro snickered.

"Of course! It's not every day that you can see six brats being beat up at the same time!" Ren laughed.

The raven-haired teen shot a glare at her. Ren returned it with her own glare.

"Now, where was I? Oh yeah!" Kankuro continued unwrapping his puppet (coughdollcough). All of a sudden, next to the boy named Sasuke, a voice spoke.

"Stop fooling around Kankuro. How long are you going to toy with these children?" a voice asked monotonously.

"We have to get going. We still have to get the registration forms for the exams," a second voice added in an equally bored tone.

Sasuke turned around. On a branch next to his, two teens, a girl with pink hair and a boy with red hair were standing upside down.

'Hmm, they're even quieter than Kakashi. I didn't even here them coming!' Sasuke thought to himself.

'Wow, she's hot!' the blonde and the black haired teens thought simultaneously.

The raven-haired teen jumped down from the tree. The six Suna ninjas were about to leave, but Sasuke spoke.

"Wait. According to your headbands, you are all from the Wind country. Where are your papers? Even if the Wind and Fire countries are under a peace treaty, we can't just let you go your merry way," the teen said.

"You're right. We're from the Suna, and we're here to register for the Chunnin exams." Sakura said, showing her traveling papers.

"You? The Chunnin exams? Ha, I bet you can't even defeat me, Pinkie!" the raven-haired teen from the tree said with scorn.

When he finished, everything was deathly quiet. All of the ninjas from Suna were looking at the pink-haired girl, who was slightly looking down.

"What are your names?" the girl asked.

"The one who spoke is Sasuke, the one next to me is Sai, and my name is Naruto Uzumaki, and I'm gonna be the next Hokage! Believe it!" the blonde teen shouted.

Sakura growled. "You want to fight me?" She asked in a deathly tone.

"It's not like you could win anyways," the boy said with a smirk.

Sakura walked up to the raven-haired teen. "Meet me outside the west gate of Kohona in one hour," Sakura said, looking at him in the eye. "And bring your team mates with you. Let's see if you are really as strong as you say you are." Sakura spun around, started walking away, and motioned for her friends to follow as she walked past them.

"Come on, let's go," Sasuke said toward his team, walking away.

Naruto nodded and followed. Sai stopped and turned around, looking at the new girl's retreating figure. 'Something about that girl seems strangely familiar…'Sai thought, as he followed Sasuke and Naruto.

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Hopefully that was more interesting than the previous chapter…