Chapter 10

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto but I do own Mayume Uchiha.

XOXOXOXO

Sakura released her 3 teammates when they reached the bottom of the platform. She then turned to face her female teammate. "How did you know that they weren't genins huh?" She pointed at Mayume and stared her down.

"How did you not know that they were chunnins? It was so obvious!" Naruto had his foxy grin on and gave his friends thumbs up.

"Hehe…well you see…I didn't really know that they were chunnins, I was just going to say 'Hey you aren't even genins are you? You're the snot nosed genins from the academy!'…And ya…" Mayume rubbed the back of her head and gave a small smile and laugh as everyone else just fell down twitching.

Everyone got up and they were rubbing their backsides. "Well…that was special. Believe it!" "We better get going to the application room." "Whatever…" As they started to walk towards the stairs, a voice called out above them "Hey you with the scowl…wait up!"

"What is it?" Sasuke called back, annoyed. "You and me, here and now, want to fight?" Lee looked at Sasuke with excitement in his eyes. "You want to fight me here and now?" "Yes." Lee jumped down from the balcony and walked over to team 7. "My name is Rock Lee. You said that someone should always introduce themselves before asking for someone else's name, Uchiha Sasuke."

"You know who I am and yet you challenge me." Sasuke gave a small smirk and started to get a bit jumpy.

"I wish to test my strength against the top of this year's rookies and the last male member of the famed Uchiha clan, besides…" Lee turned to look at Sakura and winked at her.

"Those eyelashes creep me out! Not to mention the geeky do and the caterpillar eyebrows!" Sakura screeched and ran to hide behind Mayume.

"You are an angel!" Lee started to blow kisses at Sakura so Mayume moved out of the way. One kiss was headed straight for Sakura, so she bent back, fell down and bonked her head but still managed to avoid the kiss. Mayume was on the floor laughing so hard that she was crying, Sakura got up and yelled at Lee whom Sasuke was standing in front of, and Naruto was mumbling about how Sasuke always got attention and he didn't. After Mayume calmed down a bit, she went over to Naruto and gave him a reassuring pat on the back.

"So you're challenging me knowing my lineage? So in other words you're a fool. So dog-brow…Do you really want to know what it means to be an Uchiha?" They could all see the sweat pouring down Sasuke and Lee's faces from the anticipation of the upcoming fight.

"Hold it! Let me fight caterpillar brows. It'll be easy. Just give me 5 minutes…" Naruto stepped up to Lee and got into a fighting position.

"I have no interest in fighting you. Only the Uchiha boy." Lee also got into a fighting position as Naruto charged at him.

"Story of my freakin life! It's 'Sasuke this!' and 'Sasuke that!' till I could just puke!" Naruto went to punch Lee and he just got kicked into the wall. Everyone looked over at Naruto to see if he was ok; he just twitched for a bit then went slack.

Mayume turned from her fallen friend to face Lee. "Lee…you said that you were only interested in fighting the Uchiha BOY. How about me? You're so sexist…anyways, look what you've done to poor Naruto…I didn't even think that you would go as low as to knock him out…plus you still haven't said hi to me." He hung his head in shame and mumbled a small sorry.

She started to get angry and contemplated fighting him, but she simply stated "I would beat you to a pulp right now for what you did to Naruto, but 1. I'm too tired from last night 2. You're just not worth fighting and 3. Sasuke can indirectly do that for me while fighting you." She walked over to Naruto and tried to wake him up, but when he didn't, she just dragged him into an upright position and sat down beside him.

Lee sighed and he turned back to face his opponent. "Ready to fight?" Sasuke gave him a smug look and stated simply "I was born ready." They both retook their fighting stances and in a matter of seconds both of them had kicked off of the ground and Sakura was cheering for Sasuke from the sidelines and Mayume began to fall asleep.

After a while of fighting they both landed on the ground. Sakura could tell that Sasuke was exhausted from the way that he was looking at the ground and panting heavily, and that Lee was ultimately stronger and not tired at all. When Sasuke looked up from the ground he was grimacing and Sakura noted that he had activated his Sharingan. 'I wonder if Mayume also possesses the Sharingan…'

Suddenly Mayume spoke up "Just give up Sasuke, even though you have activated your Sharingan, which I didn't know that you had, Lee will still beat you, he's stronger and you should save your energy for the exam, besides we only have 2 minutes to get to the room." She slowly opened her eyes to find Sasuke glaring at her. "I won't give up and you know it! If I can't beat eyebrows here, how am I going to beat him?"

"Who? Oh you mean Itachi." Mayume stated in a slow, mocking voice. She was still mad at him for slapping her and she wasn't sure if he was still upset also, but she felt that she had to hurt him some how.

Her stomach started growling 'Oh ya! I haven't eaten yet, and God knows that I'm a food-aholic, my left arm is most likely broken, and Naruto is unconscious. What a great day! Hey I wonder if Naruto has any food stashed away in his pockets.' She quickly got onto her knees and started to rummage through his pocket. She found a small candy and shoved in her mouth…with the rapper still on. Yes, she was that hungry.

Well…while she was scavenging for food, Sasuke got wrapped up in Lee's hand clothes and was spinning quickly towards the ground. When the young Uchiha girl turned around she saw a pinwheel pinning Lee's clothes to the wall and Sakura running and catching Mayume's semi-conscious cousin in her lap.

"Mayume! Aren't you going to help me? Sasuke? Sasuke? Are you alright?" Sakura turned her attention from Mayume to her not so secret crush. Sasuke slowly got up and Naruto started to wake up.

"No I can't Sakura! I'm helping Naruto…Is that giant turtle talking to Lee?" All for genin from team 7 turned around to look at the giant turtle that was now scolding Lee for using that move.

'Oh no way! Is that giant turtle dog brow's sensei?' Naruto slowly got up with the help of Mayume who was still staring at the turtle. Lee looked really frightened of the turtle and was stuttering, trying to explain himself. Mayume and Naruto ran over to Sakura and Sasuke, never taking their eyes off of the wacked out duo.

"I hope that you are prepared." "Y-yes sir." Lee just stuttered and looked down at the floor. "Well, then… he's all yours master Guy!" Just then a man that looked like Lee popped out of nowhere and landed on the giant turtle's back.

"Ah! The exuberance of youth! All of you are full of it!" The man shouted out doing a weird and gay pose. Team 7 just looked at him…weirdly O.o… "Is that Lee's dad or is that his future self?" Mayume was the one to break the silence.

"He's got the biggest eyebrows yet!"…"They're almost…alive…and he has the same dorky 'do"…"they're uber-brows"…"I've never seen anything like them before!"…"He's gotta be Lee's dad" Team 7 whispered among themselves.

"Hey don't make fun of Guy-sensei!" Lee shook his fist at them. "Lee…" The spandex suited boy turned to face his sensei and 'Wham!' "Idiot!" Lee heard Guy yell as he got punched hard in the face then while getting up his sensei started to cry.

"Lee"

"Guy-sensei"

"Lee"

"Guy-sensei!"

Lee ran to embrace his teacher and Sasuke turned around and puked. "Doesn't it make you feel warm and fuzzy inside?" Naruto looked at Sakura and just got a punch in the face. Mayume was already half way up the staircase. "If you guys are ready to leave…I'm outta here!" The rest of her team followed her quickly only hearing the voices of Guy telling Lee about his punishment and more sappy hugs and crying.

"Oh brother…"

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The 4 Konoha genin raced down the hallway not wanting to be late and half a minute later they were standing in front of double doors leading to room 301 and their sensei Kakashi. "Congratulations! I'm glad that you all made it here because if Sakura hadn't come (he knew that Sakura had doubted herself), you wouldn't have been able to take the exam!".

Everyone was surprised by Kakashi's 'little outburst' but after he shut up Naruto talked/ screamed out "Kakashi-sensei! Mayume broke her arm…" Mayume flashed him a death glare and he ran to hide behind Sakura who only punched him in the head.

Kakashi motioned for Mayume to go to him and he grabbed her arm. She winced from the pain in her elbow but the fact was she couldn't even feel her arm. "Mmmhm…yup…" Kakashi 'expertly' poked her arm and simply stated, "It's definitely broken, but I can't do anything about it during the exam. Sakura can you make a quick sling for her arm?" He turned to the pink-haired kunoichi who nodded at his request and with that said he let go of Mayume's arm and the 4 genins made their way to the door.

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They opened the big doors and walked into the room. There were about 150 (there are exactly 153 genin taking the exam), genins sitting and standing in many different positions. They had only taken 2 steps into the room when Sasuke got glomped from behind by none other than Ino-pig! "Sasuke where have you been cutie? I've been waiting all of this time to see you…did Sakura forehead girl slow you down?" She stuck out her tongue and made a funny face. Both Sakura and Sasuke looked as if they were about to kill Ino.

Just then two other genin from the leaf joined them… Shikamaru and Choji…Asuma's cell. Naruto was explaining to Mayume who they were when the 3 other rookie genins joined them he explained that they were Hinata, Shino and Kiba with his dog Akamaru…Kurenai's cell. Kiba was the first person to notice Mayume.

"Hey! You're new here aren't you?" This got everyone's attention and they all stared at the long lost kunoichi. "Oh…hehe…hi! I'm Uchiha Mayume. I'm Sasuke's cousin and technically his fiancé too…" she just held her chin thinking while everyone that didn't already know that stared at her…which was everyone but Sasuke. When she finally came back from thinking about chocolate frogs she looked at everyone staring at her and just shrugged it off.

Suddenly, she heard something familiar that was very comforting to her stomach…the crunch of …POTATOE CHIPS! She turned around and saw Choji eating a bag of chips. Her stomach growled and she stared at the bag, drooling. She snuck over to Choji while everyone was talking amongst themselves. "Choji…can I have some of those please! I haven't had breakfast yet!"

"Do you think that I'm fat?" Mayume looked at him weirdly "What kind of question was that? Of course you're not fat you're pleasingly plump!" With tears of joy in his eyes, Choji handed the bag of chips to his newly found friend and pulled out another one for himself. She munched on the chips as she walked around to get acquainted with the rookies. She made friends with everyone but Ino and Akamaru who kept biting at her ankles while she ran around in circles until Kiba pulled him away. Hinata became her best friend along with Choji and Shikamaru.

Sakura pulled Mayume to the side a few minutes later and made a make-shift sling from a piece of fabric that she had found on the ground and Mayume was good to go.

After a while of talking between themselves, the 10 rookies noticed a white haired leaf genin standing in front of them. "You 3 gangs of would- be hotshots are all genin right? Kids barely out of the ninja academy. This isn't a school field trip you know." "Who the heck do you think that you are?" Ino snapped back. "The name's Kabuto…you kids really need to open your eyes before you get hurt…or killed. Just look around you."

With that the 10 genins started to look around the room only getting deadly stares and whispered threats. Mayume looked back at Kabuto and got chills sent down her spine 'I don't like this guy…he's bad news…I know it!" She looked around the room one more time and stopped on the flaming red hair that she knew too well. 'Gaara…time for revenge!' she smirked and slyly sped off in the direction that she had seen the sand nin.

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Gaara was staring at the Konoha genins and listened to that Kabuto guy talking 'He's more likely to get killed than them' he thought to himself. He noticed that all of the rookies gathered around him as he was holding something in hands and showing it to them. He was so busy that he didn't notice the shadowed figure behind him.

'GLOMP!'

The Uchiha girl had jumped onto Gaara's back and since she wasn't any real threat to him, his sand did nothing. Everyone in the room turned silent and just stared at the two to see what would happen next. "I said I'd get revenge." Mayume whispered in Gaara's ear.

"Gaara, why did you leave me alone last night? You left me all alone in the forest after we did that! Geeze that was my first time with you and you went so hard on me that you broke my left arm!" Everyone looked at her and Gaara, and then started to whisper "Oh my God! Gaara of the sand did it with someone!" or "What happened between the demon and that girl?".

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Naruto was getting really hyped up and excited so her started screaming random things like "I'm better than all of you!" and "I'm going to become the greatest Hokage ever. Believe it!" The other 8 rookies that were still around hi just looked at him like he was crazy

--' and Sakura was trying to put her hand over Naruto's mouth to shut him up.

"Don't pay any attention to him! He forgot to take his medicine this morning!" Sakura tried to reassure the evil looking genins around her but only got cold, hostile stares in return.

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Gaara pushed Mayume off of his back and gave her a death glare that would have killed her…if looks could kill. She landed on her left arm which sent pain shutting up to her shoulder. "You bitch!" he shouted losing his temper. Kankuro and Temari who had been beside him started to back away with the crowd. "Mayume you might want to get out of here while you still can…" Kankuro whispered to Mayume as he pulled her away from Gaara. Mayume stood up and without second thoughts, she ran to her fellow rookies. 'Maybe I took my revenge a bit too far!'

When she reached the group of 9, Kabuto was still showing them weird cards that had everyone's information on them. Mayume thought these to be kind of weird and she got an even worse feeling of Kabuto 'Stalker!' she thought to herself. Just then someone tapped her on the shoulder and she quickly spun around. She came face to face with none other than Naruto and Sasuke.

"What were you doing with that insomniac, sand ninja?" Naruto had been worried since she had told him about Gaara actually being the one that broke her arm. Sasuke just looked weirded out by the whole glomping thing and what his cousin had said to the sand demon.

"Oh nothing…I was getting my revenge on him! Did you see how red his face got? It was hilarious…well up until the point where he was about to kill me." She nervously laughed when suddenly a cry came from her right side. The three teammates turned around just in time to see Kabuto on his knees throwing up with one of the mysterious sound nins in front of him.

"Hey are you ok Kabuto?" "Are you alright?" Naruto ran towards the fallen Kabuto as Sakura comforted him. "Yeah…I'm fine" Kabuto stated in a weak voice as he slowly got up.

"You're a pushover aren't you? Pretty sad for someone who's been an applicant for years now." The sound genin who had attacked Kabuto and that had only one eye showing spoke up. "Better add this to your cards. The 3 applicants from the village hidden in the sound will all be chunnin this year!" The other male of the group spoke up.

"WOULD EVERYBODY PLEASE JUST SHUT UP?"A strong voice boomed out as a big cloud of smoke began to form at the front of the class. As the cloud disappeared, everyone realized that it was just the proctors of the first exam entering the room.

"Sorry to have kept you all waiting. I'm Morino Ibiki and I will be a proctor and the chief examiner of the first part of the chunnin exam." The strong voice was that of the man in the front of the group who had two scars across his face. "You…the kids from hidden in the sound. You can't carry on any way you please when the exam is about to start! Or do you want to be disqualified?" He turned to face the 3 sound nin who looked shocked.

"Sorry sir…it's our first time taking the exam and we're just really excited and jumpy." The sound nin regained their cool postures and Ibiki started to state the rules of the exam. Once he said, "When you come up to the front to hand in your applications, you will get one of these seating arrangement cards. You will then report directly to that seat and when everyone has sat down, we will hand out the written part of the exam."

Suddenly the room went awkwardly silent and a few seconds later, Naruto and Mayume were freaking out "A WRITTEN TEST! OH SHIT! NARUTO HOLD ME! I'M SCARED"… "A PAPER TEST! OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN! I'M SCREWED!" Naruto and Mayume slid to the floor while holding on to each other and shivering and sulking.