A/N: Hey everyone, sorry about the delay in updates. My power went out for about 3 days straight and the chapter I was working on kind of got deleted before I could save it, so I had to start from scratch. And to make matters worse, my school had standardized testing all week so that kind of killed my mood to write. From now on I'll try to release at least one or two chapters a week.

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This chapter introduces the second genin team from Oto and lazily goes through the first exam, since it's the one I personally find the most boring. I also kind of doubles as Shinji's talkative chapter, since he's an OC I want you guys to get as much of his personality as possible as quickly as possible so I won't have to slow down later with it. Plus you all know how Haku is so there isn't really any need to go into her too much at this time, and Naruto is still Naruto, just not as loud with people he doesn't know.

Chapter 3: First Test

The rest of the time before the Chuunin exams passed relatively quickly. After the events at Ichiraku, Naruto, Shinji, and Haku met all the participating teams from Konoha, and thanks to Naruto's *ahem* rather vulgar first impression and Shinji's loudmouth tendencies, got the other teams to believe that they were about average in terms of skill. Exactly what they wanted. About three days before the exam, the other Oto team arrived. This team was composed of two boys and a girl had Nagato as a jounin sensei

The first member was a platinum blonde boy named Arno. He had flat hair that went down to around the bottom of his neck and spiked slightly on the left side. He wore a long sleeved white shirt with a black vest with a tornado design on the back over it, fingerless white gloves, black shinobi pants, and black sandals. He wore his his Oto hitai-ate around his neck.

The second member was a girl with tanned skin, spiky mint green hair adorned with an orange clip, and vibrant orange eyes named Fuu. She wore a short sleeveless white shirt the cut off at her stomach, and had fishnet armor underneath. On her arms were long white armlets, and she had fishnet shorts with a short white apron skirt over it. She had two hitae-ate, one was on her right arm that had the symbol for Takigakure and an Oto symbol in the middle of the arrow, while the other was on her left arm and had the kanji for the number "Seven".

The last member was a blue haired boy wearing glasses named Chojuro. He wears a blue pin-striped shirt and camouflage pattern pants. On top of his shirt a black holster that is used to carry a dual hilted bandaged sword (that looked suspiciously like a flounder). His hitae-ate was on his holster and had the symbol for Kirigakure with the Oto symbol in between the four lines. These three were being led by their jounin sensei, Nagato.

On the day of the exam, both teams met up outside of the academy for the first exam. The Oto genin were conversing with each other behind Naruto who was leading the group. Shinji noticed Naruto being strangely quiet for some reason, so he decided to confront him about it. "Oi, Leader-san, you're not getting cold feet now are ya?" Shinji asked. "C'mon we need you focused so we can win this thing!" "Indeed." Arno added "I agree with Shinji-dono. We need you to be focused at the task at hand Naruto-sama. If the son of the Shodai Otokage fails early on, it will make the rest of our country, by terms of association, look weak." Naturo just shook his head and looked up at the academy building. "It's not that i'm nervous... it's just... I always used to want to come inside here when I was a kid. I always saw it as the first step to becoming Hokage. Heh, I guess seeing it is just kind of nostalgic." he looked at the building and smiled a bit. "Anyway, enough of that. Let's go inside and kick this test's ass!" A resounding cheer sounded from everyone but Arno, (who just settled on a small smile and a nod) before they all walked inside.

Once inside the academy, they went up to the second floor before noticing a large crowd had gathered. Two individuals were keeping the rest of the group from entering what they claimed to be the test room, although the Oto group quickly saw through the genjutsu that was placed on the floor that changed the room numbers. The crowd was was begging to get in and the two blocking the door, and a Naruto, Shinji and Haku noticed that a boy who was doubled over on the ground, seemingly injured was in fact Rock Lee, one of the konoha genin they met the other day. They assumed Lee was hiding his strength as even with is eccentricities he didn't come across as weak, so they decided not to blo.w his cover by calling him out on it. As the Oto nin walked past the group, the two that were guarding the door was telling the crowd about the dangers of the chuunin exam and that they should quit. "Idiots" Fuu whispered. "They can't even see though a simple genjutsu. they don't deserve to take these exams if something as simple as this trips them up." the rest of the group just nodded and continued past. Just as they were about to head up the stairs, a voice rang out.

"Hey you. Get out of my way and get rid of the genjutsu. You should know better than to think suck a cheap trick would actually work." Looking over, the Oto group saw Uchiha Sasuke along with the rest of his team confronting the two boys that were stopping the crowd. Said crowd was muttering in confusion about what Sasuke had said "Sasuke-kun is right!" Sakura said "This is only the second floor!" Needless to say, the genin that were being held back were all outraged. Sasuke smirked and began to speak again when he was cut off "Hey, Uchiha, are you an idiot?" growling, Sasuke looked to the source of the voice, revealing it to be none other than Naruto. "The genjutsu was placed to weed out the weak before the exams started. If you would have kept your mouth shut, those two henged proctors over there would have kept all the bottom tier ones from making it on time and thinned out the competition. You have such a big mouth" the crowd of genin laughed as Naruto continued "You know, if you were as elite as you think you were you would have seen this and kept your damned mouth shut. Everyone and their grandmothers will be up there now." the rest of the Oto genin snickered while Sasuke seethed at being humiliated in front of a crowd. Naruto and his crew then continued up the stairs towards the exam room.

Walking into the exam room, both Oto teams went towards the back and immediately started scoping out the competition. Some of the other teams tried to intimidate them with some meager attempt at killing intent, but they just shook it off without any trouble. Upon coming across a team from Suna though, everyone got bad vibes. "Naruto-kun" Fuu whispered "The short kid on the Suna team with the red hair and gourd... You don't think..." "Yeah." Naruto whispered back. "I feel it too. He's like us." The short redheaded kid looked at both of them, then walked over. "You two." he said looking at both Naruto and Fuu and gaining the attention of the rest of the Oto genin. "I don't know who you are... But Mother is calling for your blood. She feels something strange about you. She is calling me... telling me to kill you both. You will both become Mother's next meal" Naruto just snorted "Nice to meet you too, Suna-san. Any particular reason you're calling us out before the exams even start?" The red haired boy just looked at them both before saying "My name is Sabaku no Gaara. Remember it. It will be the name of your murderer." and he walked back to his team. Fuu watched him walk away before looking back at Naruto who just shrugged.

At that moment, Sakura, Sai and Sasuke (who looked a little bruised) walk in, who upon immediately spotting Naruto's team tries to confront him. "Hey you there. Blondie" Sasuke said trying to get a reaction out of him. Naruto looked around then nudged Arno in the elbow. "Psst, hey Arno-kun, I think he's talking to you." getting a round of snickers out of the Oto nin and causing Sasuke to get angry. "DON'T IGNORE ME LOSER!" "Alright, alright." Naruto said while sighing "What do you want Uchiha?" Sasuke walked in closer, trying to intimidate him "Don't think just because you got in a cheap shot the other day means you're better than me. I didn't even have my sharingan activated. You and your trash friends from your backwater village don't stand a chance against me in a normal match. I am-" "I am the Elite! I am an Uchiha! I AM... A whiny emo boy with a duck ass haircut and an inferiority complex." Naruto interrupted while mocking Sasuke by changing his voice into a whinier version of Sasuke's causing both Oto teams and a few of the surrounding teams into a fit of laughter. "You know, if I weren't such a nice guy I'd kick your ass again just for being so annoying." Needless to say, Sasuke was pissed as he stormed off with Sakura in tow screeching like a harpy about how Naruto would pay for talking to "her precious Sasuke-kun" like that. "Well, I must say" Sai spoke up catching Naruto's attention "You certainly have dickless over there pegged." Naruto just shrugged "Of course. Arrogant idiots like him are a dime a dozen." Sai just nodded and gave an extremely fake looking smile before returning to his team, who was now conversing with a white haired genin from Konoha. Naruto was about to turn his attention back to his friends when he heard Sasuke speak his villages name.

"Sabaku no Gaara, Rock Lee, and any information you have on any of the Oto nin. When the reast of the Oto genin heard this, they stopped talking started listening. "Aww, you know their names already? That's no fun." the white haired boy said before picking out a card from a deck and channeling chakra into it. "Sabaku no Gaara, genin from Sunagakure. There's almost nothing known about his abilities. 47 D ranks completed, 7 C ranks, 2 B ranks and oh wow, even an A rank! His teammates are his siblings Sabaku no Temari and Sabaku no Kankuro" the boy said "It also says that he came back from every mission without a scratch on him." Naruto raised an eyebrow filed that bit of information away for later. The genin put his card away and pulled out a second one. "Rock Lee, genin from Konohagakure. 52 D ranks, 4 C ranks, and 1 B ranks completed. It says here that he has no ability in Ninjutsu or Genjutsu, but his Taijutsu is off the charts! He is teamed with Neji of the Hyuuga clan and a girl from a civilian family named Tenten."

Once again, the boy put his card away. As he pulled out the third one, Shinji walked up to them and grabbed it along with the entire deck, wrenching it out of the silver haired boys hands. . "Sorry kiddies, but apparently, unlike everyone else who just had their cards read, we Oto-nin like to keep our skills on a need to know basis." Sasuke smirked and responded "What's the matter Oto trash? You afraid everyone will know how much you actually suck?" Shinji returned the smirk full force before saying "What are you talking about Uchiha-san? You should know how good we are first hand! If memory serves you got messed up pretty bad by Leader-san over there a few days ago. I'm actually surprised to see you're out of the hospital so quickly." Shinji then turned his head to Naruto and saying "Oi Leader-san! You must be losing your touch!" Naruto looked back with a amused face. "Nah, I just thought that the look on his face before my attack hit was priceless. I decided to hold back a bit so he would recover in time for the exam just so I could do it again. I'll have to make sure to take a picture next time." Shinji looked back at Sasuke who's face was contorted with anger. "Well, there you have it. I wonder if he'll make copies..."

Before Shinji could get lost in his thoughts, the boy who had his cards taken away tapped him on the shoulder. "Umm... excuse me Oto-san, my name is Yakushi Kabuto. If you it isn't any trouble, would you mind giving me my cards back? They're kind of important..." Shinji looked at the now identified Kabuto then back at the deck of cards before saying "No" and making them burst into flames, leaving everyone who was paying close enough attention to wonder how he created fire without any hand seals. Shinji walked back to his group and a large explosion of smoke appeared in the front of the room.

"ALRIGHT YOU MAGGOTS, SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!" A tall man with a scarred face blasted the entire room with killing intent, making some of the weaker genin tremble. "MY NAME IS IBIKI MORINO, AND I WILL BE YOUR PROCTOR FOR THE FIRST EXAM!" Ibiki said in a no nonsense tone. "FIRST UP WILL BE A WRITTEN TEST! ALL OF YOU FRONT AND CENTER. ONCE ALL OF YOU LITTLE SHIT STAINS HAVE YOUR TEST SHEET'S I'LL EXPLAIN THE RULES." Everybody lined up quickly and got their test, then went back to their seat, not making a peep so the extremely scary man wouldn't turn his attention to them. After he explained the rules of the first exam, (A/N: you should all know them by now so I won't bother explaining them.) everybody got started.

Naruto quickly got the point of the test, and used is above average hearing to listen to the person in front of him and copied his answers by listening to the way their pencil was being dragged along the paper. After he finished answering his questions, Naruto helped out Fuu, who was sitting on his left by discreetly tapping his sandal against hers in a morse code pattern. Seeing that she was also done, Naruto decided to check on his other comrades.

Arno was doing fine. He seemed to be answering the questions without any need to cheat at all. 'He always was a brainiac' Naruto thought to himself before looking over at Haku. Me noticed her using an mirror made of ice to copy off of Arno, who was in front of her, and at the same time allowing Chojuro, who was next to her, to copy off of her. Alright, that's most of them down. Now to check on "YOU THERE, WHY ARE YOU NOT DOING ANYTHING!" Ibiki yelled out. 'Oh man. Please don't be who I think it is.' Sure enough, looking over Naruto saw Shinji leaning back with his chair on it's back legs resting his geta on the desk, hands behind his head, and his uncovered eye closed. 'GOD DAMN IT SHINJI!' Naruto exclaimed internally.

Shinji just sighed, mumbled something about boring written tests and how he just wanted to punch something as he picked up his pencil, and began working. After 45 minutes passed and many teams were kicked out for being caught cheating too many times, Ibiki spoke up again, explaining the rules of the tenth question. As most of the room went in outrage, many teams left due to the pressure. When nobody else got up, Ibiki explained that they all passed and started to explain the purpose of the tenth question to the confused genin. While in the middle of the explanation, Shinji spoke up, having returned to the same sitting position as earlier "Come on already, just get on with it! I want to get to the next test so I can hopefully hit something." Ibiki, having had enough of Shinji's behavior, decided to make an example out of him before the next proctor arrived.

Walking up to Shinji's desk, he slammed his hand on it, making small cracks on it when he did so. "What was that, brat?" Ibiki said in a dangerous tone of voice while leaking killer intent and glaring at the Oto nin. Shinji returned his chair to a normal position and returned the glare full force along with a slightly arrogant smirk, and was about to say something when a black object broke through a window and exploded, revealing a giant banner that said "THE SEXY AND SINGLE MITARASHI ANKO HAS ARRIVED!" that was then pinned to the wall by two kunai. Then, someone jumped though a second unbroken window (breaking it in the process of jumping through) and landed in the front of the room.

The new arrival was a woman with purple hair tied in a spiky ponytail wearing a full body mesh suit, a tan trench coat, and an incredibly short burnt orange miniskirt along with metal bracers on both of her legs. She struck a slightly weird post an shouted "THE SECOND PROCTOR, MITARASHI ANKO-SAMA HAS ARRIVED!" Looking around the room and seeing the confused looks and the reaction (or lack thereof) of the genin, she started to frown, until she came across Shinji and Naruto who had both wrote "9/10" on the back of their test sheets. "Oh come on!" Anko complained. "Only a 9? I put hard work into that entrance!" Naruto took a thoughtful pose and said "Well, Mitarashi-san, it wasn't that your entrance wasnt impressive... it was nearly perfect. It just felt like it was missing something... Maybe make the banner pop out more? Brighter colors and maybe instead of just 'The Sexy and Single Mitarashi Anko' you could add something on... maybe 'The Sexy, Single, and Mysterious Mitarashi Anko', or something similar." "Also, it needs more fire in my opinion." Shinji added on. "Maybe some firecrackers or roman candles would do the trick... maybe go the whole nine yards and just use some low-grade explosives."

Upon hearing this, Anko broke into a huge grin and said "You know what? You two are alright! I'll make sure to make the changes!" Naruto and Shinji just smiled and nodded while the rest of the room sweatdropped. Turning to the rest of the remaining genin, the second proctor yelled out "ALRIGHT KIDDIES, FOLLOW ME TO TRAINING GROUND 44! IT'S TIME TO GO TO HELL ON EARTH AND BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF EACH OTHER!" "ALRIGHT!" Shinji exclaimed "IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME!" as the other genin in the room got out of their seats and filed to the door, Anko then proceeded to run and jump out of the only other unbroken window in the room, completely shattering it like the other two. Ibiki sighed and Shinji laughed. "I LIKE THIS CHICK!" he then proceeded to cock back his fist and punched a hole in the wall that he jumped through to chase after Anko, surprising the other genin still left in the room.

Naruto sighed. "Come on guys, Shinji's gotten too excited again. I was wondering when it would happen, he was sitting still for far too long." he then turned to Ibiki "Sorry Morino-san. When Shinji sits still for too long he tends to forward all of the extra energy towards excitement for his next fight. You can send the repair bill to the Otokage, he should be able to pay for the damages." Naruto sighed again before walking up to the hole his teammate left. "Come on guys, we better catch up to him and calm him down before he starts toppling buildings." The rest of the group nodded and one by one they all lept out of the hole and followed their comrade.

A/N: Well, there it is. I know this chapter was boring and stuff but I kind of don't really like the first exam scenarios in the canon or in most fics (unless it's changed to something else entirely). A lot of you have PM'ed me asking why Shinji is always so loud and I thought I'd explain a bit here, and more in the preliminaries and/or Forest of Death. He is kind of like canon young Naruto, he has too much energy to sit in one place for too long or he'll get bored. Except instead of being loud and complaining like youg naruto., Shinji will deal with having to sit still and be quiet as long as it's important, (like a mission briefing, etc) and divert all of the pent up energy into everything he does the next time he's allowed to move as he wants to again. Think of it as damming off a river so it builds up then removing the dam, releasing all the water. There will be a lot more than usual until the river flows like normal again.

As always, thanks for reading and reviewing. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!