The Chunin Exams

With Kagome

'Where the freaking hell, are they?' Kagome thought as she waited outside the old meeting spot for her teammates. They had agreed to meet there so that they could head off to the exams together and they were all running late. She was debating going and beating them all, but stopped herself and tried to calm down.

'I had to tell Kakashi even it wasn't the real or whole truth. He wouldn't have allowed me to leave otherwise. I don't believe that he will tell anyone about what I said last night, but I don't want to risk people finding out about my so called hard life. If they pity me then they might not focus on something important like training as much. Although sensei did have a good point, they aren't my old friends.' Kagome was pulled out of her thoughts as her team arrived and they headed off to the exams together. They walked through the doors and went up the stairs to what appeared to be the third floor, but Kagome felt that something was wrong.

"Please just let us through." A girl with a bun on either side of her head said as she kneeled down to one of her teammates, he had been knocked down just moments earlier. Team seven walked forward and stopped when they were in the front of the group.

"You could let us through or better yet, release the genjutsu." Sakura said as she stepped just a little in front of her friends.

"Oh, so you noticed did you? Well with a team of four genin it makes since that one of you would have at least some skill." The one on the right with the weird thing on his face that covered his chin said as he laughed lightly at the newly arrived team. Sasuke looked like he was about to attack the ones blocking the door so Kagome stepped forward.

"Hello, Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu Hagane. Tell me have you been demoted or do two chunin such as yourselves have nothing better to do then, transform and use a weak genjutsu." She stepped forward and placed an index finger on each forehead and used her chakra to force them to reveal their true selves. Every one looked in shock as the two jonin were revealed, they didn't even notice that Kagome had moved to the back and her team was heading to the staircase.

"Wait, please." One boy wearing a green jumpsuit said as he lightly ran to catch up with the departing team, his team followed him. He went right over to Sakura and grasped her hands in his own as he smiled at her.

"My name is Rock Lee, may I know your name?" he asked and waited for her answer. "Sakura please be my girlfriend, I will protect you with my life." He said and Sakura appeared to be distraught for a moment before she yelled know and ripped her hands from his grip. Naruto started laughing and Sakura turned to face him for a moment.

"Rock Lee, are you on Gai's team?" Kagome asked as she stepped forward placing herself between him his team and her team.

"Yes I am, and what is your name?" He asked as he shook her hand and tried to come to some conclusion concerning her.

"My name is Kagome Higurashi." She said simply as she released his hand she stepped back. "If you would excuse us we need to get going." She them turned around as she followed her team to the real room. However when they arrived Kakashi was waiting there for them.

"Glad to see that you all came, I would say something but there is nothing more to say. All of you are very strong and talented, good luck on this test." He stepped aside and bid them to pass which they did.

"Sasuke-kun!" Ino yelled as she grabbed Sasuke from behind and proceeded to give a hug as she said how much she missed him.

"Ino, shouldn't you b with her team?" Kagome asked with a hint of annoyance on in her voice and showing on her face she gives Ino a cold glare. She then looked at Sakura and shook her head; Sakura stepped back a little and tried to calm down.

"Your all her as well, this is going to be so troublesome." The voice that could only belong to Shikamaru Nara said as he approached with his friend and teammate
Choji Akimichi. Kiba Inuzuka, Shino Aburame and Hinata Hyuga came over a few moments after them.

"Well it looks like the whole Rookie year made it. Tell us Naruto how did you manage to graduate let alone make it to the start of the Chunin exams." Kiba took a step forward trying to provoke Naruto, balled his fists and started to step forward.

"You guys should be careful; everyone is on edge with the start of the exams." A boy said as he stepped forward from the crowd, he had silver hair and glasses.

"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Kabuto." He smiled as he reached them and stopped moving.

End of the written test.

"So we took that whole damn written test for nothing!" Exclaimed Temari as she almost stood up.

"No, the point of this test was to first separate those who didn't even have simple information gathering abilities, and then to see what would happen if you found yourself up against one of the biggest problems a Ninja may face." Ibiki said as Kagome let out a great smile. Anko came bursting through the window.

"Hey Ibiki there are still 26 teams I think you've lost your touch." She said as she quickly counted the number of genin still in the room. "Oh, well everyone follow me."

All the teams had just heard what the second part of the exam was going to contain and many were talking among themselves.

"Who should hold our scroll?" Sakura asked as they gathered in a close circle.

"I think Kagome should." Naruto said as Sasuke nodded his head.

"Are you sure?" Kagome asked.

"No one really knows that much about you-"Sasuke started.

"Including use." Naruto added.

"I was the number one graduating rookie so it would make sense for me to have it. This is why any one of us, except myself should have it." Sasuke finished as he then gave Naruto a cold and very annoyed look. The decision was made just in time all the teams were called to head to their assigned gate.

"Kagome, wait for a moment." Anko called out as the teams started moving. Kagome walked over to Anko and everyone stopped to watch.

"Hey what are you all waiting for, get going!" Anko yelled as she shook her fist.

"What do you need, Anko Sempai?" Kagome asked.

"I have a feeling that something is wrong, I want you to be very careful. Also these are for you." Anko said as she pulled out twin blades. They were longer than daggers being about the length of the forearm. The blades glimmered in the light and as Kagome held them she marveled at the how light they were. "Don't even start with all that crap about not being able to accept them, just use them well."

"Yes ma'am." Kagome said as Anko started turned and started walking away. She slipped them quickly into a scroll that was currently half empty and joined her team for their designated gate.

When the gates opened all teams made their made dash for the upcoming mock battles.

Team seven took to the trees as soon as they passed the gates. They had decided to travel in the upper portion of the branches. They would stay low enough as to not risk the weak branches, but as many ninja do not check the treetops they thought it would be better to hold the element of surprise. They traveled for some time without any problems until a huge gust of wind came blowing the teammates in different directions.

With Sasuke and Sakura

Sasuke and Sakura had landed in the same area. The stood to see the weird Grass ninja that Kagome had pointed out earlier. The grass ninja had his eyes closed when he opened them Sasuke and Sakura feel to their knees. Paralyzed in fear with visions of their death dancing before their eyes, there was nothing either one of them could do.

"I guess I should just you right now." The womanly voice said as he gathered two kunai and prepared to throw them.

'It can't end like this. I have spent so much time trying to get stronger; I have my ambition to live for. I can' die now, I have to make sure that this dream of mine comes true. I will not fail, I will not be stopped!' Sasuke thoughts brought him to his senses enough where he struck himself with the kunai he had pulled out immediately after landing from the blast of wind. When he had control over his body he grabbed Sakura and was barely able to avoid the kunai that had been thrown. When he and Sakura were away he realized that he would not be able to win.

"We don't have a scroll you should just leave." Sasuke yelled and jumped down to a branch as soon as Sakura had finished healing his wound. The grass ninja just smiled as he summoned a snake and prepared to attack.

"You have enough strength that you were able to escape my last technique, but it will not happen again." The strange ninja said as he prepared told the snake to attack.

With Naruto

'How the hell did I end up getting eaten by freaking huge snake? I can't even reach the sword Kagome gave me to use. I can't die before I've become Hokage. I need to get out of here.' Naruto quickly made as many shadow clones as he could and in doing so introduced the snake summon to the afterlife. Naruto headed of to his friends to see Sasuke about to be attacked by an even bigger snake.

"Ah, shit." Naruto said as the snake attacked leaving barely any time to do anything. He jumped with all his might and while in the air pulled out two kunai. They sank into the flesh of the snake as Naruto forced the head down enough that the attack would do nothing. He landed and held the snake in place; he looked Sasuke in the eyes and smiled.

"What's the matter, scardy cat?" Naruto taunted as Sasuke looked at him with wide eyes.

You know how the fight goes on from there.

With Kagome

'If something happened to my team I will find those ninja and gut them as slowly as I can.' Kagome thought as she searched for her team. She found them all alive, but one look at Sakura was enough to know that something was wrong. She was holding Sasuke in her lap as she checked all his vitals and appeared to be healing his founds. Kagome looked and saw Naruto on a trunk of a tree with kunai embedded in his jumpsuit, holding him in place. She saw that the accuracy meant that it was Sasuke who did that, to save Naruto from what could have easily been a deadly fall.

"Sakura what's wrong." She asked as she landed on the ground in front of her teammate.

"Kagome please look at this mark, something's wrong with Sasuke." Sakura said loudly and quickly as she stood making sure Sasuke was placed gently on the ground.

"Sakura get Naruto and I will look at Sasuke." Kagome said as she squatted down and looked at Sasuke's neck. 'Damn, it's a cursed seal. Someone wants to enslave him, the heaven mark as well. This could be extremely difficult.'

"Can you do anything?" Sakura asked pulling Kagome from her thoughts. Kagome nodded her head and picked up Sasuke she beckoned Sakura to follow her. They traveled for thirty minutes until they found what appeared to be a safe place to rest.

"Naruto and Sasuke are both going to be out for a while yet. I can remove the mark from Sasuke, but it will take everything I have, I will not wake up for a while. While we are unconscious I need you to look after us all, okay?" As she spoke she had placed Sasuke's head on her lap and places her hands, one over the other, over the cursed seal. When Sakura nodded, Kagome gathered her priestess powers and started purifying all the negative energy created by the mark from his system. She didn't know how long she did it all she knew was that darkness met her as soon as her job was done.

A few hours later Lee has just arrived and has been left unable to fight. Kin has Sakura by the hair.

"A few months ago you would be able to beat me but not now." Sakura said as she cut her hair and dived over grabbing the Hirourkotes. She turned and used it to block the blast created by the boy with the wholes in his palms. She ran fore ward and used the giant boomerang in order to throw him hardly against a tree. She then turned on her heel and propelled herself forward she hit the girl but couldn't put as much force in the blow, her ears started to bleed and she was brought down to her knees.

"I don't need to be close to you in order to send my sound waves into your ears." The genin that resembled a mummy said. He checked his teammates and then they started heading over to Sakura and her team behind her. Sakura tried to stand, but before she could act three familiar ninja appeared.

"Sakura you sit back. We'll handle this." Ino said as she half turned towards her old friend.

Flashback

"Why is it that you and Ino are no longer friends?" Kagome asked as she turned toward Sakura with a questioning look on her face.

"I learned that she had a crush on Sasuke as well." Sakura answered.

"Is that the real reason or just part of it?" Kagome asked.

"I don't ask you questions about your past, why do you want to know about mine?" Sakura said as she started to get very angry.

"My past is dead, yours is not. If you want to know something about me ask, but if I answer than you have to answer me." Kagome said as she gave a sly smile to Sakura.

"Deal. Tell me about your real family." Sakura said as she met Kagome smile for smile.

"I don't remember my Father; he died before my little brother was born. My Grandfather was very wise and very caring; he ran the family shrine while taking care of us. My mother was beautiful and kind; she excepted everything that came her way. My mother was probably the strongest person I will ever know, she worked hard and managed to look after her father and her children without ever losing her smile. My brother was about three years younger than me and he was very athletic. His name was Souta and he was highly intelligent, if he were alive I imagine that I would have to go to him for advice. Now I believe it is my turn, tell me the whole truth about why you and Ino are no longer friends." Kagome said as she wiped some tears from her eyes.

"Ino was always looking after me, if we had remained friends she would have given up on Sasuke and let my try to win his attention and feeling without doing anything. I knew that she knew about my crush, so she wouldn't allow me to not do anything. The only way she could be happy would be if we weren't friends and we could compete for Sasuke's affection. Breaking my friendship with Ino was the hardest thing I have ever done." Sakura said as she looked Kagome in the eyes.

"The good thing about something broken in that it can be fixed. I don't really think that your friendship with Ino is broken, just damaged. From the way you speak I can tell that if anything were to happen you would be right there for her, and from the way you made it sound I think it would be the same with her. Besides take it from someone who knows you don't ever want anything to come between you and your friends, not even love." Kagome turned and started heading back to her apartment.

End of Flashback

'Its almost like she knew this would happen.' Sakura thought as she tried to stand, but she couldn't balance herself so she fell again. Ino and her team had been beaten.

"What's going on here?" A voice demanded from the treetops.

"Lee!" A voice beside him exclaimed.

"More Hidden leaf genin, where do you keep popping up from." The mummy said as he looked toward the knew arrivals.

"I would face you myself, but it appears that it won't be necessary." The voice said.

"What do you mean by that?" The sound ninja with the face wraps asked.

"He means that if you want to continue breathing you should leave." A hard voice came from behind the sound ninja; he turned to see that Naruto and Sasuke were standing by an injured Kin and an unconscious Zaku. He looked back and saw that the healing technique Sakura was using had just finished she grabbed the huge boomerang and stood up. Zaku reached into his pouch and pulled out his scroll, he then walked and picked up his unconscious teammate. He left with Kin by his side, without a backward glance.

"Sakura what happened to Kagome?" Naruto asked as they walked towards her. Team ten was there as well and Neji and Tenten were there as well checking on Lee. Sakura went and started healing Lee.

"That weird ninja we were fighting earlier used some sort of technique on Sasuke; Kagome called it the Cursed Seal. Anyone she was able to remove it, but it took almost everything she had so she feel unconscious almost immediately." Sakura said as she finished healing Lee.

The next day team seven arrived and finished the second part of the chunin exam. Kagome awoke only an hour before they reached the destination. Sakura and Naruto took it upon themselves to inform her of everything that had happened while she was resting. They walked into the room to see less than half the teams that had started the second part of the exam already there. There was no time for ideal chit chat however as the Hokage and the jonin examiners arrived and filled them in on the next step towards becoming chunin. Kabuto was the only one to choose to quit before the actual matches began.

"First match Yoroi Akado vs. Sasuke Uchiha."

The first match was over quickly, the rest soon followed. Sasuke won his match, Gaara, Shikamaru, Temari, Kankuro, Neji, Naruto, Shino, Dosu (the mummy guy) and Kagome hand won their matches. The matches were as follows:

Naruto vs. Neji

Shino vs. Kankuro

Temari vs. Shikamaru

Gaara vs. Sasuke

Kagome vs. Dosu

Everyone left right away hoping to get a jump start on there one month of training.

Okay sorry for talking so long to update but things have been really hectic over here. I refuse to update my story until I have 50 reviews at least. Also sorry to say that a no nothing about sex and I am planning on having a lemon later in this story between Kagome and unknown character. If you are talented at writing lemons please send me a message, and if you have a story or something that seems good I'll tell you who the unknown character is, I really need someone to write the scene. If know one is able to then I'll manage just please don't be mad if it is really terrible.

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Alikat89