Author's Note: I would just like to give a quick thank you to a reviewer Josh for pointing out that my previous weight that I had Naruto as at his current age was not all that healthy. I have changed it from 120 pounds to 165 pounds. Hopefully that is a much better weight ^^;

Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Naruto. Though, I do own this plot line and my few OCs.

Akimi and Akimitsu shared a confused look and as one took two quick steps back. Staring dumbly at the sign that had the numbers 308 printed across it, they looked back into the empty room.

Naruto watched with hidden amusement as they did all of this, impressed with just how in sync they were with one another without even realizing it. Biting the inside of his cheek to keep from smiling, he made his way into the empty room.

"Hey Fox; I think that we're at the wrong place!" He heard one of the twins call out behind him; no doubt being Akimitsu.

Naruto ignored him though in favor of walking to the back of the class to the seat in the corner left. Sitting, he watched as Akimi and Akimitsu stalked up to him.

"Okay Fox, what the hell is going on here?" Akimi demanded, her hands resting on her hips. Akimitsu crossed his arms over his chest, frowning.

"Nothing is going on, Akimi. We have made it on time so there is no need to worry." He spoke lightly; not at all threaten by Akimi's tone.

"What do you mean we're on time? No one else is here!" Akimitsu chimed in, adding his two cents to the conversation.

Naruto had to resist the urge to sigh and roll his eyes at the two. "Well of course no one is here yet. We're an hour early."

Both Akimi and Akimitsu's jaws dropped in shock, eyes widening slightly.

"An h-hour ea-early!" Akimi stuttered, her mind blanking though it was clear the only female on the team was pissed off. "What the hell do you mean we're an hour early!? I thought that we were going to be late by the way you were acting!" She yelled at him, throwing her arms in the air.

Akimitsu just stood off to the side, glaring. He was more than happy letting his sister handle this.

"Yes, Akimi, we are an hour early." Naruto spoke as if speaking to a child. "And we were almost late. But luckily, we aren't. Now would you two please sit down and shut up?" Even if he did ask, the two could clearly tell it was more of a command.

Shooting him glares, and cursing lightly under their breaths, they did as asked and sat. Akimi sat beside Naruto with Akimitsu sitting on her other side. Once sitting, Akimi did not hesitate to turn in her seat and stare him down. Akimitsu, seeing that they would get nothing out of Naruto that the blond teen did not willing say, decided to instead cross his arms over the desk and lay his head on top of them.

"So just why, may I ask, are we an hour early?" Akimi demanded. Akimitsu listened in from where he sat/laid.

Naruto rested his elbow on top of the desk and propped his chin on it, looking at Akimi with pure boredom.

"We are here so early so we can see who our fellow competition is as they come in. We will be able to judge them, maybe not as accurately as we would in battle, but judge them none the less. This way, we know who stands where. You have to remember that besides that one Konoha Team that we ran across last night at dinner, we do not know who all else will be coming for the exam."

Quite reluctantly, Akimi nodded her head in agreement. Even though she hated to admit it, her temporary team mate was right. They did need to scout out their competition if they wanted to do well in this. Beside her, Akimitsu just rolled his eyes, though not that Naruto or his sister saw. Leave it to Naruto to come up with such a logical reason to come to an event an hour early.

"Well, that and I wanted to get good seats." Naruto mused out loud, looking up at the ceilings.

Akimi's jaw dropped slightly in shock. After quickly realizing that she was staring at the blond with an open mouth, she snapped it shut and instead glared; a light twitch forming by her eye. Akimitsu had to stifle a laugh. Now that's more like it! A much better reason if he may say so.

Naruto ignored Akimi's scathing look, choosing to instead pull out a book from seemingly nowhere and set about reading it.

With Naruto reading and ignoring her and her brother catching up on his sleep, the only female of the group sighed, leaned back in her chair, and stared at the ceiling to count the small holes to pass time.

It took close to twenty minutes for the door to reopen and allow for a new group to walk in and join them. Naruto was the first to notice them, yet he did not look up from his book. Akimi was next, and unlike Naruto, she looked away from the ceiling and looked them over briefly before looking back up towards the ceiling and resumed counting all of the many holes that cover it. They seemed to have been made by bored students seeing how they were kunai and shuriken marks.

Akimitsu inched his head up from his arms and also looked over the three new teens. Blinking the sleep out of his eyes, he recognized them as the group that they had the displeasure of meeting last night. He made eye contact with the teen that had his hair pulled back at the top to his head, making it share the resemblance with that of a pineapple. Akimitsu distantly remembered the blond female of the group (Ino?) calling him Shikamaru.

Akimitsu blinked tiredly at Shikamaru, which the other boy returned with a tired blink of his own. The male twin of Naruto's group gave a quick look over towards the lazy teen's teammates and took note that they sat right up in the front row. The girl in purple 'cloths' (was she desperate for attention or something?) was too busy fixing her hair to notice her surroundings while the much larger boy (never did find out his name) was content with eating a bag of chips to care about his surroundings.

Looking back at Shikamaru and re-catching his eye, Akimitsu raised an eyebrow, asking a silent question. 'Is that really your team?' The pineapple haired teen seemed to understand his question and sighed lightly as if answering. 'Sadly' He sent a look over to the boy who was still eating chips before looking back at Akimitsu. Shrugging his should and sending a brief look up to the ceiling, he continued their silent conversation. 'He's okay though, so it's not all bad'

Akimitsu gave Shikamaru a two finger salute, silently wishing him luck with his female teammate during the exam before laying his head back down on his arms. Shikamaru smiled lazily at the teen and went to join his teammates.

Naruto went back to his book after discreetly watching the two boys interact with one another. He found if terribly amusing how they could have an entire conversation without having to open their mouths to do so. It must be because they were both lazy and since talking took up to much energy, they learned to speak without actually speaking, but by their body jesters. One would think that that would take up even more energy than speaking, but apparently that little fact never occurred to all those lazy people out there. What's more, Naruto had to wonder just how they knew what the other meant.

Oh well; he'll just save that thought for a rainy day.

After the Konoha team showed up, more and more teams began showing up until ten minutes before the exam was scheduled to start, the room was full yet teams kept showing up forcing them to stand off to the side or lean up against the walls. The tension in the room kept building and building, making those weaker ill at ease.

One particular red headed boy from Suna, who was in front of Naruto's team by two rows, seemed to be leaking off killer intent in the masses while standing protectively in front of a sitting blond haired girl that appeared older than him by a few years with his arms crossed over his chest. Whenever any one of the boys in the room was unlucky enough to look at her or in her general direction, the red head would turn and glare at them with an emotionless face. Not even his other teammate could get to close to the girl without the red head aiming all of his killer intent at the poor guy who would in turn back up with his hands in the air showing he meant no harm.

The girl on the other hand seemed unfazed by everything, content to sitting and leaning back in her chair with her eyes closed and humming softly to herself.

When Akimi spared the blond teen a glance at hearing the hum, the red head stared her down and aimed most of his killer intent towards her. Akimi shook ever so slightly with large eyes, not use to having so much aimed towards her at once but unable to look away. Akimitsu looked over at his twin. Seeing her in such a state, he followed her line of sight to see what was causing her to react so badly. He, to, froze up upon receiving a blast of the red heads killer intent, receiving much more than his sister did.

At this point, Naruto narrowed his eyes and leaned forward in his seat, resting his masked chin on his folded hands and glared right back at the red head. When the teen turned all of his killer intent towards Naruto, he was mildly shocked to see it have no effect on the blond. Irritated, Red, as Naruto dubbed him from that moment on, leaked out even more killer intent making it hard for those weaker ones to breath, much less move.

Naruto continued to remain unfazed, not moving an inch from where he sat. It was as if something deep inside him simply refused to bow down to the other boy, much less let his killer intend affect him. It was like he was immune to the feeling and pressure in the air.

Hazily, as if in a dream, he heard a voice in the back of him mind that demanded that he make Red over there back down and force him to leave himself and his teammates alone. If Naruto was told to describe the feeling later, all he would be able to say was it felt like an animalistic instinct; like he was being attacked by a smaller and annoying animal who was trying to claim what was his, making him want to snap back and kill the weaker animal; or in this case, Red. For a second, he truly felt like he was as his nickname suggested; a deadly fox.

Deciding to think about the matter later and talk it over with Ryuu when given a chance, Naruto finally gave into half of his irregular urge. Glaring, he sneered at Red even though it was cover by his mask and let out his own killer intent which easily matched that of Red's.

By now, most if not all in the room was staring at the two, looking back and forth between them with their eyes, not able to move their heads. Even the blond that Red seemed so intent on protecting had opened her eyes and was watching the two.

Naruto and Red ignored them all, their eyes locked in a battle of the wills; both refusing to be the one to look away first. Finally, Red looked off to his side, no longer able to hold the blonds' piercing blue gaze. When he looked away, he also stopped projecting his killer intent making it just a little bit easier to breath for everyone else in the room. Naruto though kept his gaze on Red, daring him to look back at him.

After a few seconds with Red continuing to glare out of the window with a large scowl on his face, Naruto finally allowed himself to also stop projecting his own killer intent and went back to his book that had lain forgotten on the desk in favor of watching the other teams come in and looking them over.

As quickly as it came, his animalistic urges and that raging voice in the back of his head left, as if content with how the situation had turned out. Naruto briefly allowed himself to wonder 'What the hell just happened?' before pushing the thoughts away for further analyze later when he had more time to think.

He really needed to talk to Ryuu. Hopefully he would know why he just experienced the great urge to attack someone for glaring at both of his teammates until said person gave into him and showed a sort of submission. The last thing he need was for an urge like that to come back and make him lose the self control he has worked so hard for.

He spared a glance at Akimi and Akimitsu to see how they were faring. He was met with looks of disbelief and a tinge of fear showed in both of their eyes though they tried to hide it when he looked over at them. Naruto's stomach twisted; they were afraid of him.

He looked forward, not wanting to see their look of fear towards him. Naruto was use to having people fear him; his nickname alone caused most people to freak out, so their looks of fear should not bother him as much as it did.

He was brought out of his thoughts by the door slamming open and a single man walking in. It was plain to see, for at least Naruto and maybe a few others present, that this man was going to either be their first instructor for the first part of the exam or take them to their first exam. Looking him over, Naruto leaned towards the former instead of the latter.

He had an air of power around him, making it clear that he was at least of jounin level if not a member of ANBU. His face was hard; no emotions besides annoyance showing with his eyes looking like steel. The way he carried himself spoke of well earned pride and grace and his stance was full of self confidence. His outfit consisted of a grey button down shirt and matching grey pants with a black trench coat thrown on top. He wore deep blue gloves with a metal hand guard and his Konoha headband truly did look like a head band, covering his entire head from view. A few scars littered his face which just added to his look. All in all, this was a man not one wanted to mess with.

Naruto, instead of being intimated, just thought the man needed to get laid as soon as possible.

"Everyone sit down, shut up, and pay attention!" His voice was deep and his annoyance became even clearer. He obviously did not want to be doing this. Well that or he was a really good actor. "I will only be saying this all once! My name is Ibiki and I will be your first instructor of the chunin exams." Here, Ibiki smiled in a way that one would when amused at another's pain. Mixed with his scars and all around look, his smile did not bode well for those in the room.

"For the first part of the exam, you all are going to play a little game."

Naruto had never wanted to hit his head against something as much as he did right then. He settled for letting his eye twitch and mentally cursing the chunin exams and Ryuu as an afterthought. The other teams in the room though seemed to perk up at this, some of the tension in the room leaving at the thought of playing a game.

He noticed how Akimi looked over towards him with her own smug smile in place. A smile that said she was silently laughing at him and his luck. Leave it to the chunin exams first exam being some sort of game the one time that Naruto is finally allowed to take part of them. Oh, the irony of it all.

"You all are going to take part on a scavenger hunt of sorts that will take you all over the village in order for you to find everything that is required. Each team will be given a sheet of paper that has a total of ten items on it; these will be the items that your team will need to find. The first six will be the same as everyone else's, but four of the ten will be personal. You will not be told what items are the same and which items are different.

"You all will have until day break tomorrow to be back in this room with all of the items on your list in order to pass this part of the exam; you will also need the sheet given to you so we know that you do in fact have all of your items and have not just brought random things. We also have extra copies of the lists, so don't think about trying to change anything on the list or saying that you accidentally lost it. It you do not make it on time or do not have all of your items, then your entire team will be disqualified and have to take the exam at a later date." Ibiki looked over everyone in the room, his gaze lingering on Naruto a bit longer then required before moving on to another person.

"Everyone will need to send one person from their team to receive a copy of their teams list." A woman walked in through the still opened door carrying a stack of papers. Setting them on the desk that would have usually served as the teacher's desk, she moved to stand behind it and waited. Ibiki moved and joined her, staring down the class full of chunin hopefuls that had yet to move.

"Well? Move! We don't have all day here!" Ibiki snapped, finally losing his patience. All at once people started to rise and make their way towards him to receive a scavenger hunt sheet. Among Naruto's group, Akimitsu was the first to rise so he was the one that went to obtain the sheet.

As Naruto stood, preparing to leave once Akimitsu returned, he mulled over the situation. He did not like; did not like it one bit.

Everyone not belonging to Konoha would be at a severe disadvantage compared to those that grew up and lived here. While he did grow up here for the first few years of his life, that was nearly a decade ago; there was no way that he would know where to find everything even with the week that he had to become re-aware of his surroundings. And then there were the teams that had just arrived the other day; they would have little to no chance. Was Konoha so unsure of their genin's talents that they had to give them something as easy as a scavenger hunt?

His train of thought was halted as Akimitsu made his return. He was frowning and staring down at the list in undisguised disgust. When he finally reached Naruto and Akimi, he snorted and handed the sheet of paper to Naruto. Placing it between himself and Akimi so that she could read it too, he looked over the list.

There was no headline that proclaimed the paper's purpose, only a list of seemingly random objects. At the very bottom of the sheet was what appeared to be a serial number?

As he read the items themselves, he wanted to roll his eyes.

1 A Blue Rose

2 A Kunai with the crafters signature etched on the blade

3 An ANBU Mask

4 A Copy of Ichi Ichi Paradise

5 A Bamboo Hat

6 An Old Konoha Newspaper

7 A Sake Bottle

8 A Bright Yellow Shirt

9 A Black Cat

10 A Dango Coupon

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Akimi rubbed the bridge of her nose, giving an exaggerated sigh of annoyance.

"For the love of Kami, please tell me that this is not our list of items." She muttered to her two teammates. Her brother patted her shoulder in a consoling way in as a way of answer.

Naruto gave his own light sigh and looked up from the list of items. "What's truly sad is that we already have half of these items and the rest will be simple to find or come across. How…depressing."

Akimitsu shook his head sadly, agreeing with his blond teammate. "Oh well; nothing we can do now but get the remaining items I guess."

"And hope that Dragon never finds out that this was supposed to be a game. One could just imagine how offended he would be." Akimi offered dryly.

Akimitsu chuckled. "While that would be fun, he would probably just make up his own scavenger hunt for us to do if only to show us all how one should really be done." He added.

Naruto nodded, the sheet of paper folded and placed in one of his pants pocket. "And knowing Dragon, it would be near impossible to do." He added in his own two cents to the conversation, secretly glad they the twins were no longer looking at him with fear in their eyes.

The three shared an amused look before Akimi stretched her arms above her head.

"Well, we might as well get moving. What do you two think we should go after first?" She asked before yawning, showing her boredom. By now, they were the only team left in the room with their first instructor which they all ignored.

Naruto and Akimitsu shared a look, one asking the other what they thought. Naruto shrugged his shoulder, not really caring. Akimitsu tilted his head back, his hands in his pockets.

"Well, I guess we can go after the first item on the list and just go down in order, skipping the ones we already have."

His sister and Naruto nodded.

As they were leaving the room, Naruto leading with Akimitsu behind him and Akimi bring up the rear; Akimi could not help herself and waved cheerfully to Ibiki.

Ibiki watched as the odd group left the room. He would have been lying if he said that they did not interest him and he found himself hoping that they passed come the next morning.

Shaking his head and smiling in amusement, he picked up the remaining sheets of paper. He was no longer regretting not doing his usual written test.