Stained Glass Window
Chapter 2
Time skip to 1 week before the Chunnin Exams -->
Team Gai was at the training grounds. Ayame was sparing with Neji, Tenten was throwing Kunai at targets and Lee was punching a giant boulder.
"Hey did you hear all three of the rookie teams are might be going to the Chunnin exams?" asked Lee.
Tenten scoffed. "No way it's probably not true"
"Actually it might be true, one of the teams is Kakashi-sensei's" Ayame said. Instead of a parka over the two under shirts she now wore a purple mini kimono with her clan's symbol on the back. A katana stabbed in the middle of a snowflake.
"Well this is going to be an interesting exam" Neji said as he smirked.
It's been about a year since they became a team and they're skills have improved greatly. Their whole team had amazing speed (but only Ayame and Lee chose to wear ankle weights). Tenten can hit the target every single time with a weapon. Ayame had better control of her Kekkai Genkai and had created many jutsus. Neji spent a lot of time working on moves only the Hyuuga's could do, but he taught himself. But Lee improved the most, his Taijutsu was simply amazing! Even though he looked like a mini Gai-sensei…
-----Team 7-----
Team 7 was walking past the training grounds, coming back from their mission (oh so boring D rank missions). They heard voices coming from there so they decided to check it out. From a really far distance that is.
"My ankles hurt! How the hell can you stand wearing these level weights?! They weigh as much as … I don't know ME!" screamed a purple haired girl while pointing to a boy with a freakishly straight bowl cut. She was wearing ankle weights that had the Kanji for control and focus inscribed on it.
"You'll get used to them don't worry! YOSH!! I must go to the Hokage and you're going too remember! YOSH!" screamed the boy with the weird hair while dragging the girl with two buns with him.
"I must go too Hiashi-sama is asking me to do something" the boy with weird eyes said with a scowl and walked off.
"More training for me I guess -sigh- you can come out I know you're there" said the purple haired girl. Team 7 jumped out of the tree they were hiding in.
"Why were you spying on me and my team" the girl said while glaring down at them. She was a full 7 centimeters taller than Sasuke.
"We weren't spying we just heard noises and decided to check it out" said Sakura.
"Oh… ok I'm Ayame Awayuki and you are…?" asked Ayame pointing to Sakura.
"I'm Sakura Haruno" Ayame nodded and pointed to Sasuke.
"Hn Sasuke Uchiha" she nodded again and before she could point to Naruto he yelled "I'M NARUTO UZUMAKI AND I'M GOING TO BE HOKAGE!! BELIEVE IT!"
"Oh you're a rookie team aren't you since I've met the others I'm guessing your in Kakashi-sensei's team" said Ayame.
"Yeah we are in hi- wait you've met every other rookie team?" asked Sakura.
"Yes"
"Whose team are you in?"
"You'll find out soon"
The Next Day
The Hokage's Office
"Now, to begin the Chunnin selection exams." The Hokage began, "First, those watching after the new genin, step forward."
Kakashi-sensei stepped forward as well as two other jounin known as Asuma and Kurenai.
"I, Hatake Kakashi, nominate; Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Naruto for the Chunnin exams."
"I, Sarutobi Asuma, nominate; Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Chouji for the Chunnin exams."
"I, Yuuhi Kurenai, nominate; Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba and Aburame Shino for the Chunnin exams."
Whispers erupted throughout the room, no one believing that all nine rookies genin were nominated for such a dangerous exam that could cost them their life. The Hokage's expression didn't change although one could imagine that he was also surprised by the news. The one who seemed mostly shocked, however, was their sensei back at the academy, Iruka.
"Hold on a second!" The academy teacher interrupted, earning the Hokage's and the Jounins attention.
"Hokage-same, please let me have a word!" He begged, "I may be speaking out of place, but I know those nine genin and despite the fact that they're talented, it's too early for them to take the exam!"
Kakashi turned around so he was facing Iruka. "I took the exam when I was younger than Naruto."
Iruka growled, clenching his fist and wondering how the jounin could compare themselves to the rookies. "Naruto is different from you! Are you trying to crush them?"
Kakashi crossed his arms. "This may upset you, but they are no longer your students but my soldiers."
"We will conduct a special preliminary exam for the new genin." The Hokage said.
"Ahem" all the people in the room turned to the doorway to see who was there. It was Ayame, who all the jounin and the chunnin in the room knew from her title as greatest female genin in Konaha, and two foreign genin teams.
"Yosh! Ayame-chan were you using your youthful information gathering skills to do something unyouthful like spying on us? Because that is very unyouthful!" Gai said to his pupil. Ayame took a few seconds to process what he just said.
"Umm… no, I was given an order to escort these two teams to the Hokage as soon as they both arrived" explained Ayame as she walked forward. She stopped when she was in front of all the jounin and chunnin and facing the Hokage, the two foreign teams next to her.
"Well you are all excused, including you Ayame" said the Hokage.
"Thank you Hokage-sama" they all said in unison as they bowed and exited the room.
"Gai-sensei will we be training tonight?" asked Ayame.
"Of course we will be training our usual youthful 8 hours! Starting at 12pm"
"Hai Gai-sensei, I will inform my teammates!" after Ayame said that she bolted of as fast as lightning. What they didn't know is that the three jounin that led the rookie teams heard them and were planning something.
Later that night…
The preliminaries held to test the rookies was actually extremely fast and they all passed. The senseis all had the same idea to watch Gai's team but in hiding. They were all hidden at the top of trees, far enough so they couldn't sense them but they could see and hear clearly what was going on at the bottom. Right now they could only see Tenten and Ayame singing Romeo and Juliet (by Toybox) while dancing around. It looked like they were really trying to piss off Neji.
The order in the trees:
Branch 1- Naruto, Shikamaru, Sasuke, Kiba
Branch 2- Ino, Sakura, Hinata
Branch 3- Chouji, Shino
Branch 4- Kakashi, Asuma, Kurenai
"I don't know that song!" said Ino.
"That w-was a s-song from like when w-we were 3" said Hinata.
"Oh… it sounds nice" said Sakura with hearts in her eyes thinking about Sasuke.
"Shh! Pay attention they're starting!" said Kiba.
"To start we will do 50 youthful laps around Konaha, 200 push-ups and climb up to the top of the posts (50 ft tall posts), you have 45 minutes! Yosh!" said Gai-sensei.
"They can't do that it will take hours! It's all a joke isn't it?!" said Sakura.
"Watch and we'll find out" said Asuma.
"Gai-sensei do I have to…" Ayame stopped to think (but the rookies thought that was it)
"See they don't even want to do it! I bet the-" Naruto said but was cut off by Ayame finishing her sentence.
"Run with my weights on?" asked Ayame. The rookies jaws dropped (except Sasuke and Shino, but they had looks of curiosity and Shikamaru who knows they can run it)
"Yes you have to get used to get used to them" Ayame sighed and got into a running stance next to Neji and Lee.
"And go!" they started running really fast. It was only a few seconds and they were already done with their first lap, every time they went all the way around they marked a tree using a kunai (one tree per person). While they did this the senseis talked to their students that looked like their jaws would drop sown all the way to the ground.
"So what do you think about their training so far?" asked Kakashi.
"Its suicide!" yelled Ino (not too loud though!).
"Yes it is hard but they've been doing this sort of training for about a year now" said Kurenai.
"200 push-ups right?" Tenten asked her teammates as they finished their laps. It's only been 5 minutes! She was behind them by about 3 centimeters; Lee, Neji and Ayame were competing for first place.
"Yosh let's go!!" shrieked Lee. They fell to the ground in push-up position and Ayame was counting out loud, they were following her instructions. "1! 2! 1, 1! 2! 2, 1! 2! 3" It took them about 8 minutes to finish.
"Let's take a small breather!" that lasted about… 15 seconds.
"Go! Go!" cheered Ayame. She stuck her kunai in the post, wrapped her legs around and pulled up, stabbing her kunai higher and higher until she made it to the top in about 5 minutes like everyone else. After this they climbed the post using charka.
"Whoosh! I'm done!" said Ayame.
"YOSH! Me too!"
"Ditto"
"Hn"
The rookies were shocked and kind of creeped out. They thought that this team was made of some kind super people.
For the rest of the day they trained and the rookies watched them train. Now its been four days and it's the start of the Chunnin exams.