Regarding the reviews (haven't done this for two chapters now)
Taiki- the polls are not open anymore, but Naruto will be summoning wolves, eventually.
Anyways this story is doing better than expected for it to do. So that's all for now here's the chapter.
--Two Days Before the Chunin Exam--
Naruto and his team have completed many D-rank missions and wondered if they missed being on the receiving end of a shower of senbons. Shikamaru mumbled, "That was troublesome." Hinata and Choji didn't know how it felt, so said nothing. Naruto said, "Really? I liked the feeling of adrenaline pumping through my blood, knowing that every needle could be fatal. The cold air from the ice and water enhanced the feeling."
Choji was intrigued and asked, "Really?" Naruto nodded and said, "Yes, it's so difficult to explain how it feels." Kakashi looked up from his book and said, "Ah, yes, I remember my first life or death situation. It is a good feeling, maybe the best feeling in the world, well second too…other things, that your not old enough to hear about. Although…don't let yourself enjoy too much or else you'll become like Anko-san."
Naruto shuddered at that thought. He had met Anko before and the way she enjoyed killing and torturing so much frightened him. Hinata looked at the frightened blonde and asked, "W-what's wrong w-with Anko-san?" Naruto looked at her and said, "Trust me you don't want to know. Anyways, Kakashi-sensei, why'd you ask us to meet you here? Wait your on time. That can only mean something important, would it be, by any chance, THAT?"
Kakashi smirked under his mask and said, "Well it's hard keeping village information from the son of the Hokage, but yes I've decided to enter you all in the Chunin Exams. Here is your slip bring it two days from now."
--That Day--
Konohamaru was following Naruto and his team around after he told them, for the fifth time, that boxes aren't square. They ran into Sakura who was pissed at seeing Naruto. "Hey Naruto-baka, see you're still alive. That's unfortunate for those guys," she said as she pointed to his teammates.
Konohamaru said, "What is this girl talking about? Oh I see, you must have been dating her and you broke up. I can see why, I mean just look at her forehead." Sakura was pissed at this, first he insinuated that she was dating Naruto, then he made fun of her forehead. In short she was going to kill him.
He ran from her and ran into, what looks like, a kabuki ninja. The kabuki nin picked him up and said, "Watch where you're going brat." Naruto looked at the man and said, "Suna-nins. I take it you're here for the Chunin Exams. Well I'm going to ask you to put the grandson of one of the lands greatest heroes and the friend of the current Hokage's son down."
The girl said, "Maybe that is a good idea Kankuro." The Suna-nin just laughed and said, "Who's gonna make me? A no-named brat like you?" Naruto smiled and replaced himself with Konohamaru. Then a stone hit the ninja's hand and Naruto said, "I could've handled it Sasuke-tebe." Sasuke smirked and said, "I know you could have, Dobe, but you're the son of my uncle's sensei, so I decided to help you out."
Naruto said, "Trust me they would've quit soon. Look next to you." Sasuke did just that, next to him was a ninja on the shorter side, with rings around his eyes, the kanji for love on his forehead, and a giant gourd on his back.
This guy thought, 'He was able to detect me…he's good and he feels familiar.' In a swirl of sand he appeared next to his team and said, "Kankuro-san, you're a disgrace to our village. My apologies…" "Naruto Uzumaki," finished the blonde boy. "Very well Uzumaki-san. My name is Sabaku no Gaara. This is my sister Temari-san and my disgrace of a brother Kankuro-san."
As he left Naruto thought, 'He has a familiar feeling to him.'
"He should," said the booming voice inside his head.
--The Next Day--
Naruto was still walking around with Konohamaru and his friends. He liked the boy no matter how annoying he got, it was like he had a little brother. Konohamaru asked, "Hey boss, when you gonna ask you pops to let me sign that monkey contract he's been holding on to?"
Naruto smiled and said, "Not until after you become a Genin. I doubt I'll even mention it until you've gone on a C-ranked mission." Konohamaru was frustrated and said, "Oh come on boss, how am I gonna get strong unless I get that contract." Naruto replied, "I have never heard of an Academy Student learning how to summon. Hey don't be mad, here I'll treat you guys to some ramen."
Konohamaru's pouting got less serious and he nodded. As they were walking a ninja, whom was apparently from Ame, grabbed and ran of with Moegi. Naruto cursed and ran after him. Naruto caught up with the kidnapper in the forest and rushed towards him. The ninja held Moegi and said, "Take another step and Moegi gets it. I want you to give up on the Chunin Exams."
Naruto was smiling, under his mask, where he stood. There was then a puff of smoke revealing Moegi standing there confused and Naruto in her capture's arms with a kunai out. He said, "You know you blew your cover when you said Moegi." The ninja realized what Naruto said that he knew who he was.
Naruto smirked under his mask and said, "Tell me how the others did over the ramen your treating me to, Iruka-sensei." Konohamaru and friends were just staring wide-eyed. Iruka cursed and disappeared.
--In Jonin Meeting--
Minato was waiting for Iruka to come back from giving a little test to the Rookie Twelve, as people called them. Iruka came back and he had scratches, bite marks, and even some scorch marks. The Yondaime was trying not to laugh as he said, "So Iruka-san, how did it go?" "They all passed, some more violently then others," Iruka said angry.
Minato couldn't help but laugh. Kakashi said, "Good, I already handed them the forms two days ago." Iruka looked at him and said, "NANI! That was the team that was said to be the least likely to go on." Kakashi said, "Calm down. I took the exam when I was half Naruto-kun's age. Plus if someone on my team is good enough to take on a Jonin-level missing-nin and win they should be in the exams."
Nobody could conter that logic, but one said, "KAKASHI MY HIP RIVAL, WHO ON YOUR TEAM WAS YOUTHFUL ENOUGH TO TAKE DOWN ZABUZA-SAN? WE NEVER GOT THE FULL REPORT!" Kakashi got a headache from that and said, "Hokage-sama, can I answer this?"
Minato nodded and Kakashi said, "Well our first encounter with Zabuza-san was unexpected and he managed to capture me in a water jutsu, but Naruto saved me and won the fight. He was going to give the killing-blow, but Haku-chan intervened. I was the one to defeat him in our battle on the bridge, however."
--The Next Day--
Naruto and team were heading to the Chunin Exam's starting location. They went up a set of stairs and saw that there was a crowd. Rock Lee was talking to some guy and seemed to be weak. Naruto whispered to Hinata, "Hey is there a genjutsu covering this area?" Hinata activated her Byakugan and nodded.
"What is going on? Lee-kun is stronger then that and with Neji-kun on their team they should be able to see through this. Unless they are trying to get people away from the exam,' thought a now smiling Naruto. His team nodded and started to walk up to the next floor when Naruto heard one of the stupidest things that day.
It was Sasuke. He nearly choked him when he heard him say, "Now then why don't you drop this charade. We have to get to the third floor. My team has already noticed it. Isn't that right Sakura-san? I mean you are the best at recognizing genjutsu."
Everybody was confused and Neji and Tenten looked pissed, all their hard work ruined. "That's right this is the second floor." The genjutsu was dropped and it revealed room 201. One of the people who were doing this tried rushing Sasuke and Sasuke was preparing a kick.
Right before they were going to clash Rock Lee intervened. He caught both their attacks and said, "It is most unyouthful to fight like this before the exams." Neji gave him a look of 'You said not to show our strength before the exams' and Sasuke looked at him with an expression that said 'he must have had a massive amount of chakra in his arms to catch that'.
They started walking and they saw Team Ten was right behind them. Lee caught up to them and challenged Sasuke. Naruto made his team stay behind and said, "Trust me you aren't going to want to miss this." His team stayed anticipating something.
Lee was blowing through Sasuke's defenses, so Sasuke activated his Sharingan to counter it. Naruto cried out, "It's no use he's using taijutsu." Sasuke brushed this off and continued to get beaten. Finally Lee appeared behind him and kicked him up. He disappeared behind Sasuke and undid his bandages.
Naruto thought, 'Crap, I didn't think that Lee-kun would go over board.' Naruto tackled the mini-Gai out of the air and said, "Lee-kun you know you aren't suppose to use THAT jutsu." Then Gai appeared and Naruto knew where this was leading. He pushed his team through the doors saying, "Trust me your better off missing this."
He pushed them into room 301 and he saw Team Eight and waved. Kiba saw them and asked, "Hey Baka and team, what took you so long?" "Oh we decided to catch a fight," Naruto replied.
Kiba looked at him and then saw Team Ten come in completely traumatized. "What happened to you guys?" asked Nekoyoshi. Shino said, "By the looks of it something we don't want to know about." Team Ten and Naruto both nodded.
A silver-haired leaf nin saw the rookies and said, "You might want to calm down don't you feel the tension. I am Kabuto, your senpai. You have no idea what to expect, but fear not my underclassmen I will provide you with information. I have taken this exam seven times, but it was not in vain. I have a little information on every ninja in here. Is there any in particular that you want info on?"
Sasuke looked up and said, "I need some on Sabaku no Gaara, Rock Lee, and Naruto Uzumaki." Kiba nearly laughed as he asked, "Why do you want information on our dead-last classmate?" Naruto said, "If you don't mind do mine last and throw in Sasuke Uchiha."
Kabuto smirked and said, "That's no fun you know all their names." He shuffled the deck and pulled out four cards. "Let's start with Sasuke. He's one of the last Uchiha, has well balanced stats, but focuses mainly on ninjutsu, he's been on twelve D-ranked missions and two C-ranked, not bad for a rookie, he was the top of his class, and his teammates are Chinatsuhime, Sakura, and Takehiko, with Asuma as their sensei," said Kabuto.
"Rock Lee has almost no ninjutsu or genjutsu capabilities, but recently his taijutsu has spiked. He has completed twenty D-ranked missions and seventeen C-ranked. His teammates are Neji and Tenten, with Miato Gai as his sensei," Kabuto continued.
"Sabaku no Gaara is mysterious. I have nothing on his stats, but I know that he has eight C-ranked mission and a B-ranked, that's impressive, plus he returned from all of them without a scratch. His teammates are his sibling and his sensei is someone named Baki," Kabuto said.
"Naruto as requested you are last. Naruto was the dead last, I was surprised you mentioned him, but looking at his stats it's surprising because they are relatively high especially his ninjutsu and taijutsu. He has been on twelve D-ranked and, what that can't be right…" started Kabuto.
"Kabuto-senpai why don't you finish what you were saying," said a smug Uzumaki. Kabuto continued, "an A-ranked jutsu. He's the Hokage's son and rumored to have signed the contract of the toads. His teammates are Choji, Hinata, and Shikamaru, with Kakashi as their Jonin sensei."
Everybody, but Team Seven and Ino was speechless. Sasuke managed to cover it up and said, "That must have been a mistake. There is no way that this dobe could've went on an A-ranked mission and survived." Most of the others agreed, with it the exceptions of Ino, Shino, and Nekoyoshi. The two latter knew that Naruto was suspicious of his sudden drop in grades.
"Well the information on Gaara is a little better then some ninjas, especially ninjas from Oto," said Kabuto. Sakura looked at him and asked, "Why do you have less information on sound-nin?" Kabuto explained, "Ah my cute little underclassmen, the sound village is still new and it is too small for me to have much data on it."
As if on cue three sound-nin rushed at him one threw a punch. The punch missed, as Kabuto got out of the way, but the silver-haired Genin still was blown back. The bandaged leader said, "Never belittle Oto."
A violent looking man with many scars on him came in and yelled, "SIT DOWN AND BE QUIET YOU LITTLE BRATS! THAT INCLUDES YOU IN THE BACK! THIS BRINGS ME TO MY FIRST RULE, NO FIGHTING!" Everyone sat down after his outburst.
The violent man said, "Okay my name is Ibiki Morino and I'll be your first instructor. The first part of the exams is on intellect. You'll be given ten questions and ten points for every question you get wrong it'll be one point of your total score. Every time you're caught cheating will be minus two points. I won't give the final question until forty-five minutes in. If one person on your team fails the whole team fails."
With the last part everyone was in an uproar, except a select few teams. Shikamaru looked at his team and said, "I won't be able to hold it all day so we'll need to do the questions fast."
Everybody took their seats and Naruto was sitting next to Hinata. Ibiki looked up and said, "The test starts NOW!" Naruto looked over the questions and thought, 'This is high-leveled Chunin questions. Only a handful of people in here will be able to get this. The answer is cheating. Shikamaru will help out with that.'
Shikamaru took note of where all his teammates were and the formed the rat hand sign. His shadow stretched very discreetly to each of them. When they first felt it their natural reaction was to fight it, but they learned to accept it so they weren't obvious. Shikamaru started to answer the questions as did the rest of his team, but the young genius noticed that Hinata and Naruto were next to each other and tried to delay Naruto so that he wrote after everybody else did.
They finished the questions in a matter of fifteen minutes and it wasn't a huge strain on Shikamaru's chakra reserves, as they all didn't fight it. Naruto looked at his test and decided to see what everyone else was doing to get by.
He saw that Kiba was using his dog Akamaru, Nekoyoshi was using his cat Aoi, Shino his bugs, and Ino took over Sakura's mind. Sakura was just doing the test, Sasuke was using the Sharingan to copy body movements, Takehiko scattered bits of leaves around, and Chinatsuhime was using a small amount of light to reflect answers on her headband. Tenten seemed to be using mirror and helping Lee, while Neji used his Byakugan.
Gaara was using his sand like Takehiko was using the leaves and he couldn't tell what Temari was doing. That Kankuro guy stood up and said, "I need to take a leek." Ibiki looked at him and said, "You'll need to take an observer with you." Kankuro nodded and one went with him.
A couple hours later Ibiki said, "Time to go over the rules of the tenth question." Kankuro walked back in and was ready for the question. "Ah perfect timing. I'm glad to see your doll playing didn't get in the way of your test." Kankuro thought, 'Crap he saw through Karasu.' He then took his seat.
"As I was saying, the rules are you can decide if you're going to take the question. If you don't then you'll automatically fail, but if you do and get it wrong then you may never take this test again and will forever be Genin." Once again there was an outburst. Naruto thought, 'This is interesting. I want to see how this is going to play out.'
Ibiki saw that Naruto was looking content and he faced him head on. "You, Uzumaki-kun," Ibiki started. Naruto merely looked up at him. Ibiki continued, "If you fail this test you'll be a Genin forever." Naruto looked at him and said, "Then I'll be the strongest Genin ever. There is no rule that stats that I can't be Hokage even if I'm a Genin, but I don't have to worry about that because I WILL get this question right and not a thing or a person in this world is going to stop me."
Ibiki saw everybody who was still there got an iron will suddenly. He thought, 'The kid's a natural leader. I really shouldn't have attack his confidence. Twenty-six teams is a lot. This group is good.'
"Congratulation, you all passed. The point of the test is that you must go at any problem head on no matter what the consequences. There is no not doing a mission because of the dangers. You do something and you do it right or face the problems with doing it wron," Ibiki was saying before he was cut off by some cloth that was flying through the window.
The cloth unfolded and it had the words "The sexy second examiner Anko Mitarashi". Ibiki was annoyed and said, "Anko you're early…again. Every time it is in Konoha you're early." Anko smiled and said, "I was bored. Hey you left a lot behind, you must be getting soft. Don't worry I'll have them cut in half by the end of my exam."
Author's note
Okay I think this chapter turned out pretty good. I want you guys to tell me what you think of it. If you think Naruto finished the test too quickly remember Shikamaru did all the work.
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