Uh, yeah I haven't read/watched what happens after the prelims of the chuunin exam in the show, so I don't know what the realionship between Naruto/Sasuke and Gaara gets to be, so just pretend that never happened! (I mean like Gaara lost against Lee or something, and they had to cancel their plot to take over Konoha) Okidokie?
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Chapter 2 – The Chuunin Exams
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"The chuunin exams?" Naruto asked then remembered the other day.
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"Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura," Kakashi had said, "The chuunin exams are in a week, the day before I will give you a day off to either rest or work on what you think you need to. But in the next six days, expect you legs and arms to fall off, at least."
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"Oh yeah." He said to himself. "So, what village are you from?" Katya's eyes turned to the ground, and she didn't respond. "Oh, sorry, you don't have to answer."
"No," she looked up at him, "It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's just that…"
"No," he interrupted. "It's ok, I understand. You don't have to tell me if you don't want." His mind wandered to Iruka again. "Why is Iruka-sensei always coming into my head lately?"
"Did you know," Katya said suddenly, "What if someone is going to die, one of their closest friends or family members always thinks of them? It was a song sung in my village."
"Really?" he thought of Iruka again. "Is Iruka-sensei going to die?"
"Is something wrong?" Katya looked at his eyes which traveled to the ground.
"What? Oh, no, nothing." He mused over the thought again and again over the time that they sat talking.
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"It's the day of the chuunin exams, guys," Kakashi pointed out bluntly as he appeared where it was arranged they would meet an hour late, "I hope that day I gave you off helped."
"It sure did, sensei!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Yeah, much." Sasuke agreed.
"If sensei hadn't given us the day off, then I wouldn't have met Katya." He thought.
Kakashi leaned over so that he was right in front of Naruto. "Is something wrong? No jumping up and down yelling, 'Chuunin exams! Chuunin exams!'? That's not like you, Naruto."
"Oh, I was just thinking, sensei, sorry." He smiled.
"Wow, Naruto thinking? Something has to be wrong…" The silver haired jounin thought as he looked strangely at the blonde. "Anyway," Kakashi said after a moment, "Let's go in, I already registered in advance."
"Wow, Kakashi-sensei doing something in advance? Is sensei sick?" Sakura thought as they followed the jounin into the building that they were going to have the first exam.
"I remember the last time when we had to do that last trick question, don't you, Sasuke?" she talked constantly about the last exam to Sasuke as they walked.
"…"
They waited at the desk as Kakashi talked to the person standing there, it seemed that Kakashi was having some technical difficulties.
Naruto felt someone tap on his shoulder, and he turned around.
"I'd like you to meet my teammates, Naruto." Katayanagi said as he turned to face her.
"Sure, do you want to meet mine first?" she nodded and Naruto got Sasuke and Sakura's attention, as Katya called her other teammates over.
"This is Sasuke and Sakura," he introduced them, "And this is…" he stopped suddenly wanting to say her full name but forgetting it.
"I'm Katayanagi," she smiled at Naruto, "And these are my teammates, Kaguya Ayame," she motioned to a fairly tall girl with fairly short dark brown hair and hazelnut brown eyes. She wore a black outfit and had a mist village headband tied around her neck, "and this is Yakushi Cagalli." She motioned to the other girl who was taller then the other two but a little, and had her silver hair tied up into a ponytail. She had blue eyes and also wore completely black, with a sand village headband tied around her waist. "And guys, this is Naruto."
"Nice to meet you." Sakura said politely.
"Yeah, good to meet you." Sasuke agreed.
"Same here," Ayame replied.
"Hn," Cagalli said, "I guess."
"Her mind must be elsewhere," Sakura thought as she followed the silver haired girls eyes to a boy in the corner of the room. "Ahhh…" she thought as she eyed him, then he turned around and she got a shock. "Him?"
"Sakura?" Sasuke nudged her with his elbow.
"Oh, sorry, what?"
"I asked you if you have entered the chuunin exams before," Ayame asked again.
"Oh, yes, once." Sakura replied. "I tied with someone."
"Iruka-sensei, I can't help thinking that you might die." Naruto thought. "Why did Katya have to say that?"
"We have never entered the chuunin exams before," Katya said, "This is our first."
"I noticed," Sasuke changed the subject, "Cagalli and Ayame are from different villages, and I can't even see your headband, Katya."
"Yeah, we are all from different villages," Ayame said as she saw that Katya wasn't going to answer, and knew Cagalli wouldn't. "But Katya doesn't like to show where she's from."
"Oh, ok." Sasuke replied, wanting that information the most.
"Uh, sorry for the wait, guys," Kakashi turned around and got a shock from seeing the three others there, "Uh, we can go in now." He scratched the side of his head.
"This is Katya, Ayame and Cagalli," Sakura told their sensei, "And this is our sensei, Kakashi."
"Nice to meet you," the three of them said at once.
"Well," Katya took Naruto's hand, "Take this, it will give you good luck. Anyway, we have to go now. Bye." She took off with her friends.
Naruto looked at what she had placed in his hand, it was a gold locket.
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Well that's a chapter! Please review, and I need some ideas on what to do with the chuunin exams please! So please try to tell me before long!