A/N: See? Told you they would get slightly longer! lol. Anyway, hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine. Only Ami and her family are.

The Run in with Squad 7

Gaara, Kankuro, and I passed the survival exercise and its been a few months. We've done plenty of missions and now we just got our biggest one. Baki had told us that we would be participating in the Chunin Exams. But it was just part of the plan to destroy the leaf village, which I wasn't too happy about. I was currently walking around the leaf village Konoha with Kankuro. We had lost track of Gaara when we arrived here. 'Stupid Kazekage' I thought as I walked.'Why did he have to use us?' I came out of my thoughts when I heard something that sounded like someone hitting the ground. I saw Kankuro staring at a little boy who was on the ground. Apparently he had run into Kankuro.

"Do you need something?" he asked the boy. Kankuro picked the boy up by his shirt.

"Konahamaru!" a boy with bright blue eyes and bright yellow hair said. He also had three marks on each side of his face that looked like whiskers and was wearing an orange jumpsuit. There was also a girl standing with him. She had long pink hair and green eyes and wore a red kimono type thing.

"So, does this hurt punk?" Kankuro asked holding the boy tighter.

I sighed. "Put him down Kankuro. Or you know you'll pay for it later." He just always had to start something didn't he?

"Hey I'm sorry." the pink haired girl said. "The whole thing was my fault."

"YOU BETTER TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF HIM RIGHT NOW!" the blonde kid yelled.

Kankuro smirked. "We got a few minutes before he gets here. Lets mess with these punks huh?"

I sighed. I hated when he acted like this. He was just going to make Gaara angry. And that wouldn't be a very pretty sight. The boy started to kick Kankuro.

"Let me go you jerk!"

Kankuro smirked. "You're feisty. But not for long." he gripped the boy harder.

The blonde boy growled. "Put him DOWN!!" he yelled charging at Kankuro.

Kankuro moved his fingers and I sighed. 'Why does he insist on causing trouble?' The blonde tripped on nothing and fell on the ground.

"What the? What was that?" he asked confused.

"You're a leaf genin too?" Kankuro said smirking. "Looks like your village is full of wimps." He lifted the little kid higher and I could tell the kid was in pain.

"Hey...cut it out! It hurts!"

The blonde stood up and pointed at Kankuro angrily. "That's it! Drop him now or I'll take you apart you got that fool?!"

'Well, he has guts I'll give him that.' I sighed. The girl grabbed him and started yelling at him. Kankuro watched them for a second then smirked.

"You're annoying. All of you. I don't like runts or any other scrawny weakling. So when a wimp like this starts shooting off his mouth, I just wanna break 'em in half."

The others all gasped and I sighed....again. This was getting a little out of hand. I crossed my arms and looked away. "Fine. Do what you want. But I'm not involved in any of this ok? You're the one who's gonna have to deal with him."

Kankuro smirked raising his fist. "First, I'll take care of this little squirt. Then I'll waste the other ones." He drew back and was about to punch the little kid when a pebble hit his hand and made him drop the boy. Kankuro grabbed his wrist. He looked at the pebble in confusion. And so did I. 'Where did that come from?'

Kankuro looked up in the tree and growled. I followed his gaze and saw a good looking boy with black eyes and bluish black hair tossing a pebble up and down. "You're a long way from home and you're way out of your league." he said.

"SASUKE!!" the pink haired girl screamed happily. Kankuro glared at him, the blonde kid looked annoyed, and I just stared at him. 'Where did he come from? I didn't even sense him arrive. Normally I have no problem.'

The little boy Kankuro was about to punch ran over to the blond and the others. "Naruto!" Well, at least I knew his name now.

"Oh great another wimp to tick me off." Kankuro said. The boy crushed a pebble in his fist.

"Get lost." he let the dust fall from his hand. The two girls squealed like fan-girls. 'So he has a fan club....should have known.'

"Hey punk, get down here." Kankuro said. The boy just glared at him. "You're the kind of pesky little snot I hate the most. All attitude and nothing to back it up." Kankuro said taking crow off his back.

"What? You're using Crow for this? Are you insane?!" I asked shocked. This didn't seem like the type of thing to use that over.

"Kankuro....back off." a voice said. Everyone looked at the branch next to the one the other boy was on and saw Gaara hanging upside down from the branch. "You're an embarrassment to our village." He said. Everyone gasped. I hadn't realized he showed up either. Though, its never been easy knowing when Gaara shows up.

"H-hey Gaara." Kankuro said.

"Have you forgotten the reason we came all the way here?" Gaara asked.

Kankuro started to get nervous. "I-I know. I-I mean, they challenged us. They started the whole thing. See, here's what happened-"

"Shut up." Gaara said. Kankuro flinched. "Or I'll kill you."

"Uh, right. I was...totally out of line. Sorry, Gaara. I was...totally out of line." Kankuro said nervously.

I sighed. 'I hate it when he gets like this.' Gaara looked over at the Leaf ninja. "I'm sorry. For any trouble he caused." He disappeared in his sand and reappeared next to me. "Lets go. We didn't come here to play games."

"Alright, sure. I get it." Kankuro said as we started to follow Gaara.

"Hold on!" the pink haired girl said. The three of us stopped for a second then started walking. "Hey!" she said.

"What?" I said not turning around.

"I can tell from your headband, that you've come from the Village Hidden in the Sand." she said. "Of course the Land of Fire and the Land of Wind are allies, but no shinobi can enter anothers village without permission." She took a step forward. "So state your purpose. And it better be good."

We turned to her. "Really?" I said. "You don't know what's going on do you?" I held up my passport. "We have permission." I smiled. "Of course you're correct. We are Hidden Sand genin. Our home is the Land of the Wind. And we're here for the Chunin Exams."

"The Chunin Exams?" Naruto said. "Whats that? I've never heard of any Chunin exams. Believe it."

I chuckled and crossed my arms. "I believe it alright. That you're totally clueless." Now I wasn't normally this mean. But this kid was really an idiot. And besides, I knew if I didn't say anything, Kankuro would. And he was much worse than I was. The kid Konohamaru explained to Naruto what the exams were.

"Oh well why didn't you say so I am so there!" Naruto said excited. I held in a giggle. He was pretty funny.

Gaara scoffed and turned around starting to walk away again. Me and Kankuro started to follow when we heard "Hey." We kept walking. "You. Identify yourself." I stopped and turned to see Sasuke on the ground. "The guy with the gourd on his back." Kankuro turned around just as confused as I was. Gaara turned after him.

"My name is Gaara. of the Desert. I'm curious about you too. Who are you?"

"I am Sasuke Uchiha." Sasuke said smirking. The two of them stared at each other.

'Please dont fight.' I pleaded in my head. That's just what we needed right now, a fight to break out before the exams even started.

"Hi there! I bet you're dying to my name right??" Naruto said excited.

"I couldn't care less." Gaara said turning and jumping away. Kankuro followed. I looked back at the leaf genin then jumped away following my teammates.

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