An Eye For An Eye

Chapter 11

Aww I'm so touched that you guys are glad I'm back Well it's good to be back, and as far as a few things that I wanted to point out or tell you guys, well for one I know for a fact that no one in Naruto would ever say ditto, and there's no way in hell Gaara would. But yeah with school and stuff I haven't had a chance to go back and change things…I think I've got to like chapter three on editing, and I've changed a few things around if any of you care at all, but yeah I was actually planning on changing that line seeing as its sort of out of place. Also as to why this story is NaruSaku I'll explain some things about my reasoning, and this might turn into a rant so be ready…ok well for one Naruto his entire life has never received what he wanted or had someone who was as loving as a family remember would be. You could say Iruka, well yes but he hated Naruto to begin with and well the 3rd didn't have the time to care for Naruto full time seeing as he was the Hokage. So yeah the way I think of it is that well Naruto likes Sakura, and Naruto should get what he wants because he deserves to be happy…so yeah… NaruSaku

Ok on a different subject my chapters are no longer going to be of any specified length. I go until I think the chapter is good, so yeah sorry if you think the chapters are too short but I would like to think that you guys would like well written chapters over chapters that I drag out just to meet my said length.

Well here's chapter 11…enjoy.

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An old figured paced back and forth through the hallways of the Konaha hospital waiting for results from the test he had put into effect on one, Anko Mitarashi. He was about to finally sit down on one of the benches that were set up in said hallways, when he heard a door open, and a few footsteps coming towards him.

"Hokage-Sama…"

The old man's head was immediately up, and staring at the medic ninja. He threw a questioning look onto his features, and just stared at the medic ninja.

"I think you should come see this."

Sarutobi nodded, and slowly stood up.

The two walked through the same door that the ninja had just walked through, and into a room with a young woman with purplish hair sitting on a bed, in the usual hospital attire.

"Hello Anko…how are you feeling?"

Anko looked up at Sarutobi and smiled,

"The best I've felt in a long time! It's gone Hokage-Sama! I can't believe it but it's gone!"

Sarutobi's eyes widened slightly before they closed because of his smile. The old man had expected that they would eventually get rid of the Curse Seal, but he never thought it would be so soon. He slowly made his way over to Anko, and took a slight glance at her neck to find that the mark was indeed gone. He nodded approvingly to himself, and looked back at Anko to see her eyes filled with excitement a joy.

"Anko…you've gone through a lot in the last couple of days. You should rest up…do you still plan on participating in the Exam?"

Anko's mouth crept upward into a smile, and she nodded excessively.

"Why wouldn't I? I love scaring little Genin it's so much fun!"

Sarutobi sighed to himself, and shook his head, smiling.

"You're never going to change are you Anko?"

Anko laughed slightly, and shook her head,

"Not if my life depended on it."

Sarutobi chuckled to himself slightly, and looked back at Anko,

"Well you should get some sleep Anko, if you plan on being in the Exams you have about 2 hours to get rested up, before Ibiki is finished with them." Anko just nodded, and closed her eyes.

Sarutobi smiled once again, and quietly left the room.

'So now we know how to get rid of one of Orochimaru's most powerful jutsu. This should also be able to help the growth of Konaha greatly.'

The old man took a pipe out of his pocket, and shoved it in his mouth.

'This is going to be interesting.'

-With Team 7-

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke continued walking until they came to a long hallway with a white door at the end of it. They all stopped, and looked at each other as a slight wind picked up, and out of nowhere Kakashi appeared in front of the door.

"Good…so Sakura came as well."

Naruto and Sasuke both looked at Sakura then back at Kakashi, while Sakura just got a questioning look on her face. Kakashi smiled under his mask as he continued,

"You guys can now register for the Chuunin Exams with no problem now."

Sasuke scratched the back of his head in confusion, and spoke up,

"Umm Kakashi-Sensei…didn't you give us these papers for us to register?" Sakura nodded in agreement, and put her own thoughts into it,

"And didn't you say it was out choice to choose to take the Exam or not?"

Kakashi nodded at both Sasuke and Sakura,

"Yes I did, but in order for you to be able to actually take this test you have to have teams of three."

Sakura's eyes widened, "Wait…so you lied to us?"

Kakashi just shrugged slightly, "Yeah I guess so. But it was only because I knew if I told you guys that you need all three of you to participate then Naruto and Sasuke would force you to take the Exam so they wouldn't be held back."

Naruto chuckled slightly to himself, which caught everyone's attention. "Kakashi's right…Sasuke would have forced her to take the Exam…"

Sasuke growled as Kakashi, and Sakura just chuckled themselves, before Kakashi cleared his throat, and started up again,

"But since you all came of your own free will then I'll allow you to go through these doors."

Kakashi stepped to the side, and looked back at his team. "Go on through…"

Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura all stepped up to the door as Sasuke grabbed the handles, and opened it. They all walked in, and the doors close with a bang behind them.

Sakura's eyes widened as she looked on to see hundreds of eyes staring at them.

"W-Wow…there are a lot of people here…"

Naruto and Sasuke just smirked before staring directly back at the hundred of eyes. They were both excited about seeing the competition, and wanted to know just how good they were compared to everyone else, but Naruto was looking for one person in general. He was scanning the crowd for his target's red hair, and the kanji for love tattooed on his forehead.

'I need to find Gaara...he's the only one I care about fighting, no one here has anything even close to his aura. He's the only one I need to beat in order for me to prove I'm dominant over everyone else.'

Sakura had been looking around, and had Naruto and Sasuke doing the same, until she heard a high pitched squeal.

"Sasuke-kun! Naruto-kun! I've been waiting for you two to show up ever since I knew I would get a chance to be with you!"

Sasuke just let out a low growl as the young Yamanaka was hanging off of his neck. Sakura was about to rush over and beat Ino to a pulp, but she had left Naruto alone so she figured it was fine. Naruto's eyes were currently wide, with shock, and annoyance.

"Since when…did you start calling me Naruto-kun?" Naruto glared at the girl. Ino didn't seem to mind as she just blushed, and looked at the ground.

"When I figured out how strong you were." Naruto just rolled his eyes, and walked away, but he could hear the slight chuckle coming from the lone Uchiha in the room. He was about to go lean up against a wall before he noticed Team 8 walking up. Kiba, as usual, was the first to say something.

"Whoa you guys are here too!? Looks like that means all of us rookies are here together huh? Looks like we get to show how much we kick ass!"

Naruto then noticed Shikamaru and Chouji walk up. Shikamaru sighed to himself, and rubbed his neck like usual, while muttering, "Troublesome…" Chouji didn't seem to care as he was just happily eating away at his bag of chips that seemed to be bottomless.

Then an unknown voice came from nearby, and every single one of the rookie nine turned to look at a teenager with Grey hair walking towards them. "If you guys don't quiet down you're going to be the first ones all these guys go after. So I recommend you keep it down, before you piss one of them off."

Sasuke stepped up, and stared the teen down, "And who the hell are you?"

The teen's eyes just widened before a smile made its way to his face, and he scratched the back of his head sheepishly, "Oh yeah sorry my name is Kabuto Yakushi, and you might want to look around you."

At this everyone looked back at the rest of the group to find absolutely everyone staring them down. Kabuto then spoke up once again, "Some of the villages here have a really short temper so I would watch out, before they decide that you're the ones they want to kill."

Shikamaru nodded, and looked back at Kabuto, "You seem to know a lot…I'm guessing this is your second time taking the exam…am I right?"

At this Kabuto just laughed slightly, and shook his head, "No actually, this is my seventh time. They host these exams twice a year, and this is my fourth year."

Sakura nodded, and raised an eyebrow out of curiosity, "So you must be like an expert then, right Kabuto-san?"

Kiba cut in before anyone could answer, "No, for him to be an expert he would have had to have passed it first!"

Kabuto once again just chuckled, "Yeah, he's right. But here, I'll help you guys out by giving you some inside information."

Everyone just raised an eyebrow as Kabuto pulled a deck of cards out, and smiled at everyone, "these are my information cards. I've added information from my last four years in the exam to them. If you want I could show you some things you might want to know."

Sasuke stepped up and looked right at Kabuto, "Can you find people too?"

Kabuto nodded, "Yeah it might take me a bit longer, but it shouldn't be too hard."

Sasuke just smirked as he nodded, "Rock Lee of Konaha…"

Kabuto smiled as he looked down at his cards, "I'm glad you know his name…that makes it even easier." Within a couple of seconds Kabuto was holding one card in his hand. He put it on the ground, and pushed some of his chakra into it, and cleared his throat,

"Rock Lee…he's done his fair share of both D and C ranked missions. He's one year older then all of you and his teammates include Tenten, and Hyuuga Neji. Their sensei is Maito Gai. Recently his Taijutsu has increased a lot but his other skills are nothing to be impressed about, anyone else?"

Sasuke just shook his head before stepping back, as, to everyone's shock, Naruto stepped up, "Yes…Gaara…I think he was from Suna…"

Kabuto nodded before finally pulling out a card and whistled as a result, which caused Naruto's excitement just grow even further. The blonde stepped up with wide eyes, "What does it say!?"

Everyone excluding Sakura was shocked by Naruto showing so much emotion about something or someone. Sakura however was just looking at the ground; she couldn't stand to see Naruto like this.

Kabuto just raised an eyebrow as he looked back down at the card, "Ok well it says that he's been on his fair share of D rank missions, but he's taken one B rank mission. And for a Genin that's real impressive. The thing that's crazy though, is the fact that he comes back from all of his missions unscathed."

Naruto's eyes almost popped out of his head, and he was on the verge of drooling. He was going to fight Gaara, and he was also going to kick his ass. He would be the first one to teach this Gaara kid that he wasn't the most powerful being alive, and there were people who could kill him.

Sasuke had noticed Naruto's behavior, not like everyone else didn't, but he wondered if this Gaara was the kid Sakura had asked him about earlier. Once again he figured he would get answers one way or another, and let it go. Kabuto then set the card back in the deck,

"Is there anyone else that you guys want to see?" A voice came from the crowd as everyone turned to see Neji Hyuuga, Rock Lee, and Tenten walking through, "Yeah…Uzumaki Naruto…"

Everyone turned to look at Naruto who just closed his eyes, and leaned against the back wall.

Kabuto swiped his hand over the deck, and in, not even; a second had the card in his hand. He calmly looked over the card before he looked up, his eyes wide. It took a second but he gained his composure back, and put on a fake smile.

"Well it looks like Naruto here's only gone on 3 D rank missions, but he has one A rank…where he fought an S ranked mission ninja, and one more that was even more powerful. He lost his eye in an attack on him when he was six, but fights like he still has it. His teammates are Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura, while their sensei is Hatake Kakashi. Oh yeah…and he has a hidden power source that no one has ever found."

Naruto's eyes shot open as he looked over at Kabuto with wide eyes of disbelief.

'There's no way he could know about the Kyuubi…There are only a few people who do know…so…how could he!?' Naruto shook his head softly to clear his thoughts, but when he looked back at everyone he saw them all looking right at him. Shockingly enough it was Shino who stepped up and spoke what everyone was thinking.

"You have a hidden power Naruto?" Everyone just continued to stare at Naruto, while Kabuto had a slight smile on his features. It wasn't enough for anyone with regular vision to notice but Naruto had no trouble seeing it for some reason. He closed his eyes, and shook his head.

"No…I don't…I have no idea where you got that information from Yakushi, but its wrong. I don't have anything that gives me an edge in battle, well that I know of anyways."

Kabuto's smile only grew as his nodded his head, "Yes, it must have been a mistake on my part. I mean I'm sure that if Naruto-kun had some secret power he would know for himself."

"Yeah or just deny it so he could have all the power for himself…" Everyone turned to see Sasuke with a scowl present on his face. The two people who couldn't believe it the most however were Naruto and Sakura. Sakura just slowly stepped forward.

"S-Sasuke-kun…how could you say something like that!? If Naruto-kun had a hidden power I'm positive he would have told us by now." Sasuke just chuckled slightly,

"Yeah just like he told us about his-"Sasuke was cut off by metal digging into his neck.

"Stop…I will kill you if you tell anyone…" Once again everyone was taken off guard including Sasuke. He was angry at Naruto, but he would have never went this far, but now that he thought about it he was about to give away a trump card for Naruto.

So Sasuke did the only thing he could think of, and that was too nodded as slowly as possible. When the young Uchiha felt the presence of the metal vanish he took a couple steps back, and rubbed his neck softly. Naruto had walked over into a corner, and was staring at the ground. Sakura was about to walk over to him when Kabuto spoke up.

"I would just leave him be for now…I don't think you want to make too much of a scene I mean there are already teams who are going to be out to get you guys, and if you kept going with this whole outburst you guys are causing…it's only going to get worse from here on out."

Sakura could only nod slightly, and continue looking at Naruto

Little did the rookie nine know there was a team from sound that had their sights on a certain person.

"Uchiha Sasuke…" A man wrapped in bandages said looking right at Sasuke. Two more ninja from sound walked up right beside the bandaged man, and one of them sighed,

"So he's the one we're supposed to kill then Dosu?" The man wrapped in bandages nodded,

"Yeah that's right Zaku…he doesn't seem like much so we shouldn't have too much of a problem. His teammate though…there's something off about him. I don't know what it is, but...I just don't know."

The girl of the group laughed slightly, "Yeah ok then Dosu…I highly doubt a Genin could do anything to any of us."

Dosu shook his head slowly, "I'm not joking Kin…There's something about him…sort of like an aura. It's the same as that kid from Suna. They both have weird…feelings…with them…I really don't know how to explain it."

Kin and Zaku both nodded knowing that Dosu wasn't joking around. They both looked back over at the blonde leaning up against the wall at the entrance of the room.

Zaku was just about to say something to Kin, when out of nowhere a booming voice rang through the room,

"Shut the hell up! Every single one of you!" Everyone in the room instantly shut up, and were all looking over at the cloud of smoke the voice had come from.

When the cloud of smoke vanished it revealed about 30 people. They all seemed to be at least Chuunin rank, and the one that had been talking was right in the middle. He was wearing a long black trench coat and his hitaiate was covering his head like a bandana. He didn't have a scowl on his face shockingly; he actually had a distorted smile on his features. He stepped up a few feet, and cleared his throat,

"As you may have already guessed…I'm the Examiner of the first exam, Morino Ibiki."

Ibiki smiled to himself as he looked around, and noticed he had everyone's attention. His attention then drifted over to the Rookie Nine, 'I wonder how they'll fair, we have some exceptional Genin this year.'

Just as Ibiki was about to continue on he glanced over at 3 of the Chuunin that were going to be helping with the writing portion of the test. He smiled at them, and they smirked back. Ibiki, then chuckled to himself softly, and shook his head. He then, once again, cleared his throat, and continued on with his introduction.

"The first part of the Chuunin Selection Exams shall be a written portion once everyone turns in their application forms."

Ibiki walked into a nearby room, and walked to the chalk board up front. He looked over at the Genin walk in, put their forms into a bin set up for them, and take a number to determine seating. Once he had noticed that everyone was seated, and had a test in front of them he began explaining how the exam would work.

"Ok everyone, as I said before this is the written portion of the exams, and there are a few things I would like to go over. There are to be no questions during this time no matter what it's for. Ok this test is composed of ten total problems that you have to work out. The pass and fail ratio will be determined by a point system. Everyone starts off with ten points. For every question wrong you lose one point.

Cheating is not recommended seeing as if you get caught you will lose two points. The points will be added together as a team, and the total from your team will determine if you pass or not. Also if anyone on your team has zero points at the end of this test their team will automatically be disqualified. Now…begin!"

Instantly the only thing you could hear in the room was the tapping of pencils, and against wood as everyone started on the test.

-With Naruto-

Naruto slowly looked down at his test, and within almost a minute knew what to do. He didn't know the meaning of the test, however, he was so confident in his abilities with his Byakugan that it didn't matter what happened if he got caught cheating, seeing as he knew he wasn't going to get caught. Within seconds he had the first question answered, and smirked to himself. He knew this was going to be an easy ride. With Sakura and Sasuke as teammates he knew he wasn't going to fail this test.

Sasuke could simply just use his Sharingan, and copy someone's movements, and get all the answers that way, and he knew that Sakura probably would just know the answers, because of how smart she was. He just continued on with what he was doing, and until his hand finally came to a rest, and he chuckled slightly at his, now, filled out exam paper. Now it was time to have some fun.

-With Team 8-

Hyuuga Hinata didn't have a fear in the world when it came to the test. She did have a fear of something else, or someone to be specific. That certain someone also happened to be sitting right next to her. Yes, Hinata was terrified of Naruto Uzumaki, and she really didn't know why. She had never been scared of anyone in her life, and she had seen some pretty bad things. She had tried to think of reasons why she had a feeling of panic whenever the blonde came near her; she thought it could have been the fact that the boy had almost killed a fellow classmate right in front of her eyes, but she had also been kidnapped by some people who wanted her eyes, which required killing her, many years ago, and that lead into a whole other story that involved none other than Hyuuga Neji.

Hinata just shook her head slightly and activated her Byakugan so she could see other people's tests. She didn't have to worry about Kiba and Shino seeing as Kiba had Akamaru, and Shino had his bugs. Hinata just took one more glance at Naruto and went back to her test.

Kiba was simply waiting for Akamaru to tell him the answers to all the questions. He figured that he couldn't get kicked out; because well…he wasn't the one cheating it was Akamaru. He looked over at Hinata and noticed that she had her Byakugan activated, which meant she was fine. His heightened senses, thanks to his clan, also detected the very slight flapping of wings, which meant that Shino was using his bugs. Kiba just smirked to himself,

'My team is just way too good!'

Shino wasn't even looking around. He was just looking straight at his paper, and when his fly would come back it would tell him the answer to a question and then be off again. It was perfect, and he knew it.

-With Team 10-

Ino was the only one on Team 10 that was actually working. She knew that Sakura would have all of the answers just by using her brain, and to Ino's satisfaction she was sitting right behind her. Ino chuckled to herself slightly, and made her family's famous hand seal, and then out of nowhere he body fell onto the desk, startling the two other people at the table. Just when one was about to poke Ino's body she sat up, and started writing.

'Thank you Sakura!'

Shikamaru wasn't trying to pass test. He wasn't even awake. He simply had his head laying flat on the table, which a giant pile of drool collecting on his test. Chouji was along the same lines, except he wasn't sleeping. He was eating. He wanted to get started, and he kept telling himself that he needed to, but he was so hungry he couldn't help it.

-With Sakura-

Immediately after the test was placed in front of Sakura she began tearing into it with her pencil, and within a matter of minutes she had finished it all. Sakura decided that she would see how the rest of her team was doing seeing as she had the rest of the time free. She turned around and saw Sasuke with his Sharingan activated, and he was writing in rhythm with someone sitting right in front of him. Sakura also noticed the visible smirk on Sasuke's face.

Sakura then turned in the other direction, and looked at Naruto sitting in front of her. He just kept looking up and down really fast, which confused her, but she was sure he was doing something to get the right answers. Then out of absolutely nowhere everything went black on Sakura. Then about ten seconds later everything went back to normal. Sakura couldn't figure out what had happened until she saw Ino writing with a slight smile on her face.

'That bitch!'

-With Sasuke-

Sasuke didn't worry at all about Naruto and Sakura. He knew that Sakura could probably just write down the answers in the first place, and that Naruto had two Dojutsu at his disposal, which if you added the two powers together, would easily equal a passed test. He just studied the person in front of him who hadn't stopped writing since the time began, so he figured he had all the answers. He activated his Sharingan, and was instantly in sync with his movements. After Sasuke finished he started to think about what all was going to happen next, when he was cut out of his thoughts, by a loud cough. He looked over, just like everyone else did as one of the Suna ninja stood up, and laughed slightly.

"Sorry I have to pee? You mind?"

Then one of the Chuunin stood up and tied some rope to the ninja. They both walked out, and then Sasuke went back to his original thoughts.

-With Naruto-

Naruto had recently finished the test, and had seen the Suna ninja, who Gaara had called 'Kankuro', get up and leave with a Chuunin. He just set his head down, and decided that it would be a great time to have some fun. The Chuunin had been calling off teams left and right, but that wasn't enough for Naruto. He smirked to himself as two of the Chuunin stood up and looked down at their boards. The first one then called out,

"Numbers 3, 34, and 67…you guys are gone." Instantly all of them stood up, and started screaming at the Chuunin.

"That's bullshit! I didn't look up the entire time! How the hell could I have cheated!?"

The Chuunin just laughed quietly, and looked up at the Genin, but his eyes were different. Naruto only scoffed as the Genin fell to the floor. The Chuunin then stepped back against the wall, and nodded to the other one.

"Take him and his team out." The other Chuunin just nodded, and threw the paralyzed kid over his shoulder, as the other two teammates followed. Once they were gone the first Chuunin looked at his clipboard again, and smiled.

"Numbers 17, 45, and 103, bye bye." Everyone's eyes widened when they saw who was standing up. Kabuto was the only one smiling as he slowly stood up alongside his two teammates.

"Aw damn…you caught me!" Kabuto just shrugged as him and his two teammates continued walking towards the door, but before he left he looked over at Naruto and smiled once again. When they were finally gone the Chuunin just smiled.

Then right when he was about to say something else Ibiki spoke up. "Ok pencils down! It's time for the final question!"

Everyone's eyes were instantly on Ibiki, and to this he only laughed sickly. He took a slight glance over at Naruto who just smirked back at the Instructor. He chuckled to himself softly as he turned back to the group of Genin.

"Ok before this question is given I'm going to give you guys an option. If you choose not to take the question, then you fail, but-"Ibiki was cut off by some random Genin,

"Well of course we would take the question! That's obvious!" Ibiki slammed his hand on the desk.

"I wasn't finished dammit!" He stepped back, and took in a deep breath before looking at the group again. "If you wish to take the question then you may, but if you miss it…you will be stuck a Genin forever." Kiba was instantly up and pointing right at Ibiki.

"That's bullshit! There are people here who have taken the exam before!" Ibiki just laughed, and shook his head,

"That's not my problem…now if you would wish to drop out then do so now…"

One by one the teams started dropping off, and Ibiki's smirk only grew as he noticed all of the rookie nine staying caput. Once everyone seemed to be where they wanted to be and sure of it, Ibiki nodded to the rest of the Chuunin, and they nodded back.

Ibiki then stepped up, "Congratulations! You all pass the first part of the Exam." Everyone in the room just stared at each other and were asking questions.

"Wait what's the tenth question!?" The kunoichi from Suna ask as she stood up suddenly. Ibiki just chuckled once again as he shook his head.

"There is no tenth question. Ok… when you move higher up in the ninja ranks you'll be faced with many different scenarios and some will involve withstanding things or risking something to get the job done, and we just wanted to test you guys, and see who would be willing to do that. All of you have shown that you have the skills needed to gather information, and also proved that you were willing to give something precious to you up just to get the job done."

Everyone just nodded, and started talking to each other about how great it was that they passed the first part of the test. While everyone was chattering away Ibiki walked over to a certain blond haired, male, Shinobi.

"I've never seen that strategy used before…what's your name kid?"

Naruto didn't even look up as he was staring at a group of ninja that were talking happily amongst themselves.

"Uzumaki Naruto…" Ibiki's eyes widened as realization dawned on him.

'That would explain why he's so good…what everyone said was true.' Naruto was about to get up, and walk over to his team before Ibiki spoke up.

"Aren't you going to undo your shadow clones?" He said looking at the two Chuunin from before.

Naruto shook his head, and continued walking. "They'll come in handy later on…and plus no one even knows they're not real, so why ruin it?"

Ibiki smirked, and was about to walk back up to the front when out of nowhere there was an audible breaking of glass, and a giant scroll flew through the room, setting itself up perfectly, which read.

'Say hello to the Exam's second Examiner! Anko Mitarashi!'

"Yo! Now who here is ready to go fight to the death!?"

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Well that's all hope you enjoyed it! I'm sorry for taking so long but yeah…school what you gonna do? It sucks I know but yeah. As usual Reviews are loved by me, and yeah I prefer long ones over short ones even if they're flames. But yeah hope you guys don't hate me, and well….see you later I guess!