Beginning of Change
Chapter 4: Second Exam
We join team 7 walking out of the Academy. Naruto was grinning like an idiot, Sakura was smiling brightly, and Sasuke looked content. As they were walking out naruto was thinking about the first exam and how it was all a ruse in order to test the young ninjas ability to gather information. Then he thought about the Tenth and final question.
Flashback
"Alright pencils down Maggots" Ibiki Morino's voice was heard, "Time for your tenth question, this question is difficult, but I am going to offer you all an option, If you choose to take this test then you must get it right in order to move on to the next stage, but if you get it wrong… then you will leave and stay a genin forever."
"WHAT!" was heard from multiple people
"You can't do that" said Kiba
"On the contrary I could do what the fuck I want I am in charge, but there is still the other option." Ibiki said with a grin he took a few minutes to let it sink in
"Whats the other option already" Naruto shouted impatiently he wasn't about to back down from some stupid question
"Hehe The other option is, you can leave if you want and not answer the question, but then you and your squad will be forced to leave." ibiki said "So if you wish to not here the question and leave raise your hand now"
One by one genin started raising their hands, and those who did as well as their groups got up and were escorted out. Naruto looked around the room kind of disappointed in his fellow leaf ninja, because starting the exam easily 50% of the ninja in the exam were from the leaf outnumbering all the other teams, but now it appears that the majority of ninja who quit were leaf ninja. He looked over at his teammates and saw sasuke staring across the room at….Ino? Then he turned his attention to sakura and saw that her right arm was moving slightly and shifting, which were the telltale signs of lifting ones arm. 'I have to do something before she quits' He thought
Thinking fast he slams his hand on the desk and stands up, "Hey what are all of you thinking!? This is just some stupid question and you are all running scared from it. Well Uzumaki Naruto will not back down from some stupid test BELIEVE IT!" He shouted and with that he crossed his arms and sat down with a huff.
Most of the genin in the room then stopped raising their hands and got determined looks in their eyes. Sakura who was seriously debating raising her hand instantly stopped and stared disbelievingly at naruto
'How could someone be so idiotic yet so cool at the same time' She thought
"That is just classic Naruto-kun" inner sakura said. Sakura just sighed used to her inner self's antics.
"Well if thats all the quitters then…..Congratulations you all passed the first exam"
"WHAT"
Flashback End
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'Hmmm it's funny…..I still don't get the Tenth question.' Naruto thought Deep in Naruto's mindscape, kyuubi sweatdropped.
As Naruto and his team arrived at the forest of death there were numerous genin outside of the gated area already. Naruto looked around and noticed teams 8 and 10 as well as lee's team. The proctor was a women that looked like she was in her mid-twenties, she had purple hair and was wearing a very revealing outfit. She had a sexy smirk on her face, that was creeping out all of the genin who watched her.
"Alright, kiddies this is the site of the second exam, THE FOREST OF DEATH," she exclaimed, "The next couple days will be difficult for all of you, and most likely some of you will not come out…,but you have to haha, because you must all try to get these," she holds up a scroll, "your objective is to try and take them from other teams and meet at the tower in the middle of the forest in five days." at this Anko looked over the crowd, she noticed that a blond-haired boy was not even looking at her, she smirked and took out a kunai, might as well, have some fun.
Naruto wasn't paying the procter any attention, he was busy watching sakura out of the corner of his eye. So imagine his surprise when his sensitive ears picked up an object flying high speed straight at his head. He barely managed to shift his head the object cutting off a couple strands of his hair. Then suddenly the wind shifted and he felt a presence behind him. Turning his head slightly he saw that the creepy procter was behind him.
"Hmm blondie-kun its not very nice to ignore someone while they are talking." As she spoke she licked the bit of sweat that dripped down his neck. Sakura seeing this grew angry, she didn't know why, but she wanted to punch the procter in the face for being that close to naruto.
"Hmmm it seems you have dropped this procter-san" said another creepy grass nin with anko's kunai in his tongue.
"Why thank you," anko replied with a grin, slightly suspicious of this grass nin. "but anyways I think its about time we pass out the scrolls."
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After all the scrolls were passed out, Sakura followed her team to their gate. Their gate was to be released in the second round. Sakura was still nervous about this round and was really regretting agreeing to enter this competition. She looked at her teammates, first zeroing in on sasuke, he looked as stoic as ever, she smiled slightly he looked as cool as ever. Then looking over at her other teammate she felt a feeling of warmth envelope her making her feel giddy inside, he was staring at the gate with a look of pure determination, she felt her heart flutter slightly, and wondered what the hell was that, she never felt like that before. Either way looking at her teammate she felt awed by how he seemed that he would not be scared even while staring death in the face.
"Ummm Naruto, can I ask you something?" Sakura asked timidly. Naruto turned to look at her confusedly, she had never talked to him, so timidly before. Usually she was either talked loudly, or with an informative voice. She usually only talked to sasuke like this when she tried to ask him on a date, never before had she talked to him like that. He smiled and said
"Sure, you can Sakura-chan," he said with a grin, Sakura blushed slightly, which went unnoticed by naruto,
"How can you be so determined when we are entering such a dangerous environment?" Sakura asked
Naruto looked deep into her green eyes, Sakura's blush intensified, Naruto said, "Well I know I have to be calm sakura-chan," he said, She looked confused
"What do you mean Naruto?" Sakura asked.
Naruto chuckled, "Well, I know that I have to be calm, because I know that I have to protect my precious people." He answered.
She looked confused again "Your precious people?" 'Naruto has precious people here, what does he mean?" she thought
"Haha yeah, I don't have a whole lot of precious people sakura, since most people in the village tend to ignore me, and I never had parents. So you and even that teme, sasuke are very important to me. You guys are my friends, and I would rather die than see any of my precious people be hurt or worse. So in a sense sakura-chan you don't have to worry no matter what I will protect you and the teme." Naruto said with genuine smile, not any of those fake smiles, but a real genuine smile.
Sakura was shocked to say the least, and her blush intensified tenfold, but before the conversation could carry on further they heard "Alright team 7 you may enter, as soon as the gates open." Then the gates slowly opened, and team 7 burst in.
As they were running, Sakura felt all nervousness she had before slip away, she looked over at naruto felt gratitude towards him. He made her feel way better with only a couple words. Now with a determined face all her own, she followed side-by-side with her teammates ready to take on this exam.
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Team 7 had been running a for a couple hours non-stop. Sakura was grateful for the three months of exercise she had done, because now she lasted a lot longer at running than she would have before, but now after a couple more hours of jogging she really wanted a break. Naruto looked over his shoulder, and noticed that sakura was lagging behind, decided that a break was necessary.
" Hey teme, I think that I need some water," he said as he glanced at sakura.
"Tch fine we will take a break here for an hour." Sasuke said while stopping on a tree-branch
Naruto took out a scroll from his pouch and unsealed it revealing numerous bottles of water. Naruto took three and tossed one to sakura, and another to sasuke. His teammates stared agape at their whiskered friend. Sasuke then said "Naruto how did you do that?"
"Hmm ohh the sealing scroll, it's just a little something I picked up from my training trip with kakashi-sensei" Naruto replied.
His teammates seemed to understand, naruto started getting up, then he felt an overwhelming chakra came nearer to their location. He was about to warn his teammates when he suddenly felt a chakra spike and a strong gust of wind came and knocked naruto through several trees, effectively separating him from his teammates. When he landed he looked up in time to spot a giant snake, but was too disoriented to do anything when he saw the snake lurch back and snap its head forward to swallow him.
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With Sakura and Sasuke….
Sakura just stood up slightly disoriented, she panicked and looked around, immediately spotting sasuke. 'Ohh no where is Naruto,' Sakura thought. Looking over at sasuke he seemed to notice that Naruto wasn't there either. That's when the massive waves of killer intent washed over them, Sakura paled and immediately felt like fainting from the massive pressure, this was so much worse than Zabuza's killer intent. That's when they noticed the figure appear in the front of them. The figure was the strange grass kunoichi from earlier.
"My, my what do we have here," she said "Sasuke-kun, what's wrong can't take a little killer intent, Tsk, Tsk, I expected much more from the Uchiha Heir." with that she flicked several kunai at sasuke and sakura.
Sasuke clenched his fist, 'COME ON MOVE!' he inwardly screamed at himself "MOVE" he yelled as he took out a kunai and stabbed himself. Using the pain he quickly turned and scooped up Sakura and jumped into a tree. Putting Sakura down on the branch he turned to face the enemy ninja, and instantly knew that he would lose if he challenged her.
"Hmm you do seem to prove more challenging than the blonde-one." the kunoichi said
"Naruto? What did you do to him?!" Sakura yelled
"Ohh let's just say he was a very appetizing meal to one of my little pets," said the kunoichi
"If I give you the scroll will you leave?" he said out loud while holding up the scroll.
"Sasuke-kun" Sakura yelled
"Hmm so giving me the scroll will save you life?...Fine give it to me," She said. Sasuke instantly threw the scroll to her, but halfway to its destination, it was intercepted by a blue, and orange blur.
"NARUTO!" Sakura yelled in relief
"Heh you transvestite freak, leave my teammates alone!" Naruto yelled
"Hmmph you fool I thought my pet would have taken care of you" the kunoichi sneered
"Ha like some overgrown snakeskin rug would prove to be challenge to me" said naruto
"Dobe give him the scroll we don't stand a chance against him!" yelled sasuke
"Tch, as if. If we do give him the scroll, who's to say he won't just kill us, as soon as he has it." screamed Naruto
"Very, very true, Naruto-kun I am not after the scrolls anyways, I am here to gather info, and have a little fun," The kunoichi said, while raising a hand, and a snake came out of his sleeve.
The snake rocketed forward straight at sasuke with unbelievable speed. Sasuke stood frozen in place eyes wide.
"SASUKE-KUN!" screamed sakura.
Suddenly there was a blue, and orange blur, and naruto stood in front,back first of the snake holding it back by stabbing two kunais into its mouth.
"Are you scared?" said a heaving naruto, repeating sasuke's question to him, "scaredy cat."
Sasuke's eyes widened. Naruto kept talking though, "hehe I won't back down I have to protect my precious people." He turned around and leapt at the grass kunoichi, the kunoichi leapt back out of his reach, and summoned another snake. That didn't stop naruto though he leapt at the snake and proceeded to pummel the snake into the tree.
'When did naruto get so strong' thought sakura
"Who cares, SHANNAROO, he is so cool!" said inner sakura with a fist pump
While naruto was distracted, the kunoichi shoot off straight towards sasuke with a kunai in hand. Sasuke thought 'what am I doing if I can't even stand up to this one kunoichi, how am I going to stand up to Itachi' he thought as the kunoichi got closer to sasuke he parried the kunai with another kunai then aimed a kick at her head. She jumped back, but failed to notice naruto behind her as he threw a punch at her head. The punch landed as the kunoichi turned the punch got her chin. She flew back a couple feet, before naruto followed up with a double-hook combo, then an uppercut. The kunoichi flew in the air, for a moment before regaining her composure and landing on the side of a tree.
"Fire-style: Fireball jutsu!" was heard before a fireball was launched straight at the kunoichi. The kunoichi could do nothing as the fireball engulfed her. Naruto calmed down and breathed a sigh of relief. Sasuke hunched over and tried to catch his breath. Sakura looked overjoyed, until a figure emerged from the flames. The figure came out pulling the "skin" of his face off revealing a paler face with purple markings.
"Haha never would I have guessed the you two could work so well together. I might even consider giving you my little gift Naruto-kun," she said while licking her lips.
"GAAAHHH I DON'T WANT ANY GIFT OF YOURS YOU PEDOPHILE!" Naruto exclaimed, while holding up his hands in a familiar cross handsign, "MULTI-SHADOW CLONE JUTSU" He yelled
Suddenly the whole area was full of Narutos. The Narutos all took out a kunai and got ready to charge. Sakura and Sasuke were awed by how many shadow clones naruto made. There were at least 200 of them.
The real Naruto quietly snuck over to Sasuke and Sakura. "Guys come on we need to go" he whispered
"What happened to we could take him," said Sasuke as he followed Naruto sakura on their tail
"Yeah WE could take him, but those clones plus the clones I summoned earlier to get out of the snake plus the jutsu I am about to do is making me run out of chakra. Besides this guy is inhuman he took a fireball to the face and didn't even flinch." He said as he pulled them along
"He or she is strong, he/she wasn't even trying while fighting us. He/she will defeat those clones, and chase after us." Sasuke said
Naruto grinned, "didn't you hear I am about to do a very chakra-consuming jutsu on a mass scale, and it looks like we are far away enough, I doubt he will survive this." He said as he made a Ram Seal "Ohh and guys please catch me."
"SHADOW CLONE GREAT EXPLOSION JUTSU" Yelled Naruto, suddenly a loud explosion sounded through the forest.
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With Orochimaru…..
Orochimaru was fighting off all the clones and so far instead of all of them charging him one at a time they were charging him one or two at a time. So he assumed that they were trying to buy time for Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to escape. A very effective strategy, if they were facing other genin or even chunin, but they were dealing with a sannin no less, so as so as he defeated the last of these clones, which he already defeated about half, he would catch up to them and give sasuke his gift.
Suddenly he felt all the clones chakra spike and they all rushed him at the same time with grins, then it happened. Things went black for Orochimaru and his ears were deafened. When he regained his composure he noticed that not only was he severely injured, and it would most likely take him longer to heal, but also an explosion of that magnitude would draw attention from the anbu and procter. So he decided to retreat for now, he that kyuubi brat was worth something after all.
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Back with team 7….
Sakura and Sasuke looked back in awe as a giant explosion went off in the distance. They turned to naruto to ask questions, when suddenly naruto fell forward unconscious. Sakura moved forward and caught him bridal style. Oddly she liked the feeling of him in her arms and tightened her grip on him silently. Sasuke looked at her and noticed her tighten her grip on him, and inwardly smirked 'Heh I knew it' he thought. Then a devilish idea came to him.
"Alright Sakura I will take him out of your hands." He said calmly, holding his arms out
"N-NO!.. umm I mean I could carry him a little longer." she said, subconsciously holding naruto tighter to her body, chuckling nervously. 'Why am I acting like this? Its just naruto' she thought
"Its cuz Naruto-kun is so warm and very cuddly" Inner Sakura said
'Hmmph maybe… but I still love Sasuke-kun' Sakura thought
Inner sakura sighed. Why couldn't her outer self see the truth. Naruto was slowly making his way into her heart, but she just doesn't want to hear any of it.
Two hours later the sun was slowly setting and It looked like Naruto was still going to be out for a while. Sasuke and Sakura found a nice, little clearing, with with a tree that had sort of a cavern in it. So sasuke, who started carrying a naruto when sakura got tired, put naruto in side of the cavern.
"Alright Sakura, we are going to have to eat something so, you stay here and guard Naruto, while I go and hunt." said sasuke
"Alright Sasuke-kun" Sakura replied sitting down next to naruto
An hour after that sasuke returned with a couple fish. Then started a fire. After cooking the fish and him and sakura eating, Sasuke told sakura to get some rest while he stood guard.
While he stood Guard sasuke couldn't help, but think how much stronger naruto got than him. His taijutsu seemed to get way better than before. Before naruto strikes were sloppy and uncoordinated. Now however his strikes were quick and powerful. He apparently learned a very powerful ninjutsu that allowed his clones to explode. He definitely got stronger, Sasuke would just need to try harder. Sasuke looked up and noticed that he was so lost in his thoughts that the moon was already pretty high in the sky, he was more than likely thinking for about 4 hours. He guessed it was about 1 in the morning, so he decided to go wake up sakura.
When he walked to the cavern he noticed that sakura seemed to have unconsciously cuddled up to naruto in an attempt to try and get warmer. She was curled up around naruto's arm with her head on his bicep, and her right arm on his chest. He smirked she was not going to like this when she woke up, but either way he was tired and it was her turn to take watch.
Sakura was so very comfortable, this was probably the best sleep she has had in a while. So when she was gently shaken awake, and the first thing she saw was blonde she thought nothing about it. Then she thought about it. 'Blonde hair….hmm looks like naruto's…...NARUTO'S!' she got up with a jump. She was cuddling up to naruto the Idiot.
"So what I Told you he was warm and cuddly" said inner sakura.
'Ohh no sasuke-kun saw me' thought sakura. She stood up to see a smirking sasuke.
"Sasuke-kun its not what you think-" she tried to say, but sasuke cut her off
"Idk sakura it looks like you were cuddling up to naruto for warmth," he said with a smirk
She turned bright red and tried to fumble for something to say, but sasuke chuckled and said, " Its okay sakura, I won't say anything." Sakura looked crestfallen and sasuke left with a smirk.
Later that day Sasuke and sakura were traveling, naruto on sasuke's shoulders. Sasuke picked up a sudden movement to the right of them. Slowing to a stop he flicked a kunai in the trees to the right, Sakura stopping beside him. Suddenly air shot out of the tree like a cannon and deflected the kunai. Sakura and sasuke jumped to the ground, and sasuke put naruto down. Three figures dropped from the tree, it was the same three sound ninja from the first exam.
"Hehe so you are the famous Sasuke Uchiha ehhh?" said zaku
"You don't look so tough," said kin
"Don't underestimate him," said Dosu
Sasuke and Sakura stood protectively in front of Naruto. Zaku noticing this said "hey I owe that punk something, Let me have him so I can kill him."
"No way" said Sakura
"Heh fine then I will kill both of you, then I will kill that kid." He replied getting ready.
"Sakura stay back guard Naruto, I will take care of them." Said sasuke as he activated his sharingan.
Then sasuke charged at Dosu, but when he got close, Zaku fired the wind cannon at sasuke, and he was forced to cartwheel to the side. Sasuke pulled out some shuriken and threw them at Zaku, mid-cartwheel, before he could recharge his air cannon, but just as they were about to hit him, put some senbon hit them making them change direction last minute. Sasuke stood up and charged Zaku, but dosu threw a punch at him, which sasuke managed to block, and return it with a High kick that managed to hit Dosu in the side of the head making him stumble. Before sasuke could follow up more senbon flew at him and landed in his right arm, disabling it. He jumped back, and pulled the senbon out, giving him feeling back in his arm. Quickly running through hand signs he said, Fire Style: Phoenix Flower Jutsu. He fired multiple small fireballs at the trio. They were forced to split up, and sasuke quickly acted, taking off intending on taking out Zaku first. He charged him and sent a left hook at zaku, but he blocked it, sasuke thought quickly and brought up his knee. This one Zaku never saw as the breath was knocked out of him he fell forward, but sasuke caught him by the arm and proceeded to flip him over his shoulder, Zaku Regained his composure quickly and landed on his feet putting his palm flat on sasuke's back he released a small amount of air enough to case sasuke to stumble forward, but it was enough, because dosu then appeared and punched sasuke in the gut. Letting him fall to the ground.
"Heh he wasn't so hard, with my special ability that punch should be enough to disable him" said Dosu as he kicked sasuke in the stomach.
Sasuke felt his head ache, and blood was dripping out of his nose, that gauntlet on dosu's arm has some sound ability. He could no longer hold his sharingan as it deactivated. He looked up to see Zaku and Kin hovering over him. Suddenly Shuriken whizzed by overhead, making the three jump away from sasuke. Sasuke looked over in the direction the shuriken came from and saw sakura standing there nervously.
"Hehe so the little girl wants to play too huh?" We could play with her for a little bit said Zaku, "Kin take care of her."
Kin charged at sakura with a senbon in hand, Sakura took out a kunai and parried her swipe, but kin was quicker, and followed it with her fist. Sakura got hit across the cheek, and was disoriented long enough for kin to grab her by her long pink hair.
'DAMMIT! I am so useless, the one time my teammates depend on me and I fail them.' she thought
"No way are we going to fail, lets go what would naruto-kun do? SHANNAROO!" said inner sakura
'...You are right, I will not give up!' sakura thought
Sakura looked up to see zaku making his way slowly over to Naruto with a kunai in hand. Then she heard Kin say something that made her incredibly mad.
"Zaku hold on a minute would you, I would like to take, blondie-kun there for a ride before he goes." Kin said lecherously.
That was the final straw, taking out a kunai she spun and swiped at her own hair, cutting it just below her shoulders. She then stood up and punched a surprised kin directly in the face,
"CHAA! Take that don't touch our Naruto-kun!" Inner sakura exclaimed
Sakura who was too focused on the three in front, didn't hear her inner self's exclamation.
Sasuke slowly started standing up "Heh, you guys aren't going to do shit, I am going to fuck you up," he said as his sharingan spun to life. He stood up rather shakily and glared at the trio.
"Wait just a second!"
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In the bushes hiding was another team. They had just arrived.
"Shika, we have to go help them!" said Ino as she saw sasuke get punched.
"I know, but they are pretty evenly balanced, they have a long-range specialist, a mid-range specialist, and a close-range specialist. We have to have a good strategy. He said as he saw sakura cut her hair.
"Looks like we don't have time we are going to have make up a strategy as we go." Ino said as she jumped out, "Wait just a second!" she yelled
The combatants all turned to face her, as she and the rest of her team stepped out from the bushes.
"This is so troublesome Ino," sighed Shikamaru
*munch munch*
"Naruto did say that Konoha sticks together shikamaru" said choji
Sasuke stared at Ino sending her a grateful smile, she smiled brightly back and said "Alright Sakura, Sasuke you guys can take it easy and watch naruto we will handle this!"
Sakura moved back to naruto and put his head in her lap as she felt he had a fever. Sasuke stared at Ino, before saying, "No I have some pay back to administer."
Ino glared at him, making him cringe slightly, "I said we will handle this!"
"No, we are doing this together!"
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A couple minutes earlier…
Naruto was disoriented, as he came too. He started to remember what had happened, he remembered a being attacked by some Transvestite, then using the clone explosion jutsu and being extremely exhausted. Then he felt his head being lifted and placed on something soft, but firm. He cracked his eyes open slightly to see that he was on SAKURA"S LAP. She stared down worriedly at him. Her beautiful green eyes clouded with concern, and her hair was CUT. 'Impossible she said that sasuke liked girls with long hair, she would never cut it' he thought. Suddenly he heard…..
"No I have some pay back to administer." 'Was that sasuke's voice?" he thought
"I said we will handle this!" 'Ino' he thought
He couldn't take it his friend's were fighting someone strong, and he promised sakura that he wouldn't let any of his precious people get hurt, and Sakura looked pretty hurt, and Sasuke didn't sound so good as well. Opening his eyes quickly he said, "No, we are doing this together!"
Sakura gasped obviously surprised, And everyone turned to stare at him. He stood up carefully, and eyed the people around him. There was sasuke looking horrible, All of team 10 standing protectively in front of them, and further ahead was those sound genin. He recognized the guy he had punched in the first test, glaring at him coldly.
"But naruto, how are you even standing you were chakra exhausted, only yesterday?" she said, concern evident in her voice
Naruto chuckled, "Thanks for the concern sakura-chan, but I told you I will protect my precious people, no matter the cost. If these guys are trying to hurt you then I will Fuck their shit up! He exclaimed glaring at all three of their opponents coldly
All of his friends felt awed by his speech, and his selflessness.
"Heh quite the speech their Blondie, unfortunately I am going to have to decline your offer to fight." Dosu spoke up
"WHAT! This was just getting good Dosu" Zaku angrily yelled
"No this fight would be suicidal, we are outnumbered 2;1, and already had a fight with some of them. So we offer you a deal," he took out a scroll, " Our scroll for our lives" he said placing the scroll on the ground in front of him and taking a couple steps back.
Naruto walked forward, "Deal, I will give you all five minutes to run away, before we give chase, and it won't end well." He said as he picked up the scroll
"Farewell…..,but I warn you as well that next time we won't run." he said, before disappearing, his teammates after him.
After that both teams decided to head straight for the tower since both already, had both scrolls. On their journey Naruto noticed that Sasuke and Ino were a whole lot closer than he remembered, since they were always laughing around each other, well ino was laughing, sasuke just smirked or occasionally chuckled. He was sure that he wasn't the only one that noticed, but oddly enough the one that he thought would be most upset didn't seem to care at all.
Sakura had noticed sasuke and ino being extremely close, but found herself surprised that she didn't care. She even found it kind of cute. The one thing she couldn't figure out though, is why she seemed to want to get closer to naruto, and talk to him more.
After a day of traveling on foot, they finally got to the tower. Both teams then separated. Team 7 then opened their scrolls at the same time, because of the heaven and earth themed instructions. There was a puff of smoke, and Iruka appeared.
"Iruka-sensei!" Naruto exclaimed
"Ohh Naruto I haven't seen you in a while, you look completely different. How about after the exams I treat you to ramen." Iruka said
"You are the best Iruka-sensei." Exclaimed Naruto as he hugged his old sensei
End of Chapter 4