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Chapter 7: The Chuunin Exams Start

Naruto looked up at the hotel they were using before sighing. He closed the door behind him and rubbed his sleepy eyes, he was NOT a morning person. Glaring down at the genin team, he walked down the hall towards the exit. He was heading to the special waiting room for jounin, not like he had anything else to do. He watched as Hinata pointed in the direction that they had to go before following him. Together they went to the jounin room to hang out and talk to the konoha jounins, Zabuza and Kimimaro were both back at the hotel. Entering the room, Naruto sat down with Hinata sitting next to him, blushing slightly. He sighed, she had become less shy, but she still blushed a lot when they were really close together.

"Who're you?" Naruto looked up and saw Kurenei there.

"My name's Naruto, this is Hina-chan" Kurenei looked at them for a second more before shrugging. She sat near the other konoha jounins, among them, Naruto saw Kakashi who nodded at him before returning to his book. Naruto sighed, it was going to be a long day.

ARASHI"S POV

Arashi looked around at all the genins, trying to find someone who was his age. Sometimes it sucked to be a genius, but Tou-san did say that it gave him an advantage since people would often underestimate him. He decided to just ignore the genjutsu and walk through it, but paused when he saw the mini Tou-san show up. He waited there to watch the proceedings as Gaara and Haku went ahead. He watched as the one with the chicken butt hairstyle decided to show off and anounced the genjutsu. When the chuunin attacked, he was about to go in to stop them, but saw a creepy looking guy in a green jumpsuit jump in front of them.

He was really surprised when he saw a guy, probably on the green guy's team, walk up and he had the same eyes as him. Probably a hyuuga. Listening to them talk, Arashi finally learned their names. He decided to walk over towards them, just in time for the other team to spot him.

"Get out of here, this is a place for genins, not academy students" Tenten said, just as they were about to walk away. Arashi turned to them before replying

"I am a genin, and if you call me an academy student again, I will not hesitate in disabling you"

"Che, stop being so full of yourself. You are far younger, even if we fought, you would not win" Arashi glared at Neji before turning and looking at the other team.

"If I remember correctly, you never introduced yourself to me"

"Uchiha Sasuke"

"Haruno Sakura"

"Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage!"

"Hm. My teams already gone ahead, so I think I'll just walk with you guys if you don't mind"

"Hn"

Arashi fell in step behind team 7, but as they passed through a room, they saw the green guy, Lee, call for a match with Sasuke. Arashi stood by and watched as Sasuke got his ass kicked, then gawked when he found out that lee was only using taijutsu. Activating his Byakugan secretly, he noticed that lee wasn't even using chakra to enforce his strength. 'Wow' was all that arashi could think at the moment. When Gai showed up though, he almost ran screaming from the scene with the sunset and the whole 'lee!' 'Gai-sensei!' thing.

Walking up to the door to the next room, he waited while team 7 talked with their sensei before walking over to the rest of his team. He sat down next to Gaara and Haku before closing his eyes, voting for a nap.

NARUTO'S POV

Naruto immediately started talking to the other rookies as soon as they got into the room. Sakura yelled at Ino when she jumped on Sasuke and so on and so forth.

"Hey, quiet down a bit" some guy with glasses and his hair in a ponytail walked over.

"And who might you be?" Sasuke.

"My name is Kabuto, so you're the nine rookies fresh from the academy?"

"Yeah, what of it?" Ino spoke up, as Sasuke shoved her off of him.

"Your attracting an awful lot of attention. Look around yourself, you see those guys from the hidden rain village? They have quite the short temper. Everyone here is really tense right now. I'm just warning you so you won't get picked on. Then again, I guess it can't be helped with you guys being rookies and all. Reminds me of my old self"

"Kabuto was it?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah"

"So then this is your second time?"

"No, it's my seventh time. This exam takes place twice a year, this is my fourth year"

"So then you know a lot about this exam"

"Yeah, I guess"

"Wow! You must be an expert!" Naruto spoke up.

"But he hasn't passed it" Shikamaru said lazily.

"Yeah, that's also true"

"Is the chuunin exam that difficult? Man, this is getting even more troublesome"

"Maybe I could give my cute underclassmen some information then with these"

"What are those?" Sakura.

"These are my ninja info cards. In simple terms, it's a card that has specific information burned into it with my chakra. I've been collecting information on this exam for the past four years, there's about 200 cards total. So I've got information on just about anything" Kabuto pulled out a card before spinning it, as holographic 3-D images appeared on the card, showing how many contestants there were from each village.

"Let me ask you rookies, do you know why the villages have the chuunin exam together?"

"..."

Kabuto sighed. "Well, first it's to deepen friendly relationships with other countries. Next, it's to heighten the level of ninja, that's what they say at least"

"That's what they say?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes, the real reason is to confirm the level of the ninja in each adjacent in each country and try and balance out the power"

"Power? Balance?" Naruto asked.

"And why would they go through such a troublesome task?" Three guesses who.

Kabuto took back the card with the countries on it. "If they don't do that, the weaker countries would be invaded and dominated by the stronger ones. So they need to check and restrain each others powers, that's my guess though"

"Do you happen to have cards with detailed personal information in there?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes. Is there someone who interests you?"

"Yes"

"The information I've got on this exams examinees are not perfect, but I have burned and saved them. They include information on the nine of you. Tell me whatever you know about the people that interest you, I'll look it up"

"Gaara from Tokigakure, Arashi from Tokigakure, and the third member of their team. Rock Lee from Konohagakure"

"Well, you know most of their names. That won't be much fun. Ah, here they are"

"Show me"

"Um, yeah!" Naruto nodded. 'Though I really have no idea what's going on, Heheh'

"First here is Rock Lee. He's one year older than you. Missions completed: 20 D-rank and 11 C-rank. Squad leader is Might Gai, teammates are Tenten and Neji Hyuuga. He has the highest taijutsu I've ever seen, but horrible ninjutsu and genjutsu skills. He managed to be an eye cathcer last year as a rookie genin, but he didn't take the chuunin exams then. So this is his first time taking it as well."

"Huh? Hyuuga?" ' why does that remind me of someone?' Naruto thought.

"Next, Gaara. Missions completed: 10 D-rank, 8 C-rank, and...this is astounding! 3 B-rank! Since he's a foreign shinobi though, I don't have much on him. I don't have anything else on him except that he's come back from all of his missions unharmed and that he is the adopted son of the Tokikage"

"He did 3 B-rank missions and came back unharmed?!" Shikamaru asked.

"Who is he..." Naruto was thinking

"Then, here is Kazama Arashi. It says here that he just turned eight, so if he passes the chuunin exams right now, he will be the youngest chuunin ever aside from Hatake Kakashi. That is including the famous Itachi Uchiha."

At that, Sasuke's eyes widened a bit.

"He has completed the same missions as Gaara, but he has been injured on some of his missions. He is also the son of the current Tokikage so he and Gaara are brothers as well. The third member of their team is Momochi Haku, who was adopted by Momochi Zabuza, S-class missing nin and a member of the seven swordsman. Haku is the oldest of them all, but I don't know anything about his skills other than the fact that he may or may not be stronger than Gaara"

"Hn" Sasuke was thinking to himself, Naruto could tell.

"Konoha, Suna, Ame, Kusa, Poki, Oto. This year, they've all sent their best to take the exam. Otogakure, though, and Tokigakure are small villages that have recently been formed so I don't have much information on them. Either way, all of them are powerful hidden villages."

"I'm starting to lose confidence..." Hinata said in a soft voice.

"It's too late to say that!" Ino yelled at her.

"In other words, all the examinees here are..." Sakura said nervously

"Right, it's not just Tokigakure or Lee. All the people here are the elites chosen to represent their country. This isn't that easy"

'Even Naruto is nervous, that is to be expected though. I mean, we're all just rookies and all' Sakura thought to herself as she looked at Naruto. ' I feel uneasy about it too, but not seeing Naruto act like his normal self is kind of hard. Maybe I should cheer him up!" She thought when she saw Naruto shaking.

"Hey, Naruto, you don't need to be that scared-huh?"

Naruto spun around and pointed at all the genin in the room. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto! And I'm not going to lose to any of you! You got that!"

"Hey, what's with him?! Ino freaked out.

'I guess this idiot wouldn't get depressed for anything, I was worried over nothing' Sakura said, starting to get angry with Naruto.

"What's the point of provoking everyone?!" Ino asked Sakura, still freaking.

"Don't ask me!"

"Who else am I supposed to ask!"

"What did you say!"

"Ah, that felt good!" Naruto said, putting his hands behind his head.

ARASHI'S POV

"Is that guy an idiot?" Arashi asked his team.

"He seems to be in good spirits" Haku laughed softly.

They could barely hear the sound from where they were.

"Did you hear that? They said that Otogakure is a minor village from a small country" The normal looking boy said.

"I'm hurt" replied the guy in bandages.

"Let's play with them a little then" said the girl last.

"Yes, they spoke as if we're left over ninja. Let's make him add this to his data, ninja from Otogakure are somewhat cruel"

NARUTO'S POV

"I'm not going to lose to any of you? Big talk." Kiba told Naruto.

"That idiot, he just made everyone here his enemy, troublesome"

Naruto soon was choked by Sakura as they talked or, rather, argued. Noticing everyone glaring at them, Sakura tried to save them from getting killed.

"Everyone, it was a joke! You see, he's just a severe idiot so there's really no need to take a guy who's a hasty idiot who got carried away seriously." She turned back to Naruto and started beating on him again. They completely ignored their surroundings until they noticed that Kabuto was under attack. They watched as he dodged the punch, before his glasses broke.

"I see, so that's the kind of attack it was" He said.

"What's going on, you dodged it, so why are your glasses..."Sasuke started to say.

"It must have hit his nose, heh, that's what he get's for trying to look so cool. Troublesome."

Just then Kabuto fell on his knees and spat out blood.

"What? Kabuto?!" Sakura said. She and Naruto ran over to him to make sure he was alright. He assured them real fast, before listening to the mummy.

"You're not as good as I thought for a veteran who took the exam four years running"

"Write this in your cards" The normal looking guy said, "the three from Otogakure will definitely become chuunins"

ARASHI'S POV

"Arashi, what did you think of that attack?" Haku asked.

"There was no problems there in dodging it, so it must be some kind of trick" Gaara was quiet, but seemed to be thinking.

Arashi looked towards the back when he heard an explosion.

"Alright, quiet down you Punks! Sorry to keep you waiting, I am the examiner for the first test of the Chuunin Selection Exams, Morino Ibiki!"

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