AN: it's finally here! It's the start of the Chunin exam chapters!! W00t!!!!

~Kunkuro's POV~

I'm walking with my two siblings and Sensei. We're about to take the Chunin exams in the Hidden Leaf. I'm thinking about Popori. Does she remember me? Because I sure as hell remember her. I wonder if she has matured at all. Matured being in the physical way of course. I wouldn't mind if she is still as feisty as I remember. I'd enjoy it if anything.

"Kunkuro, will you get your head out of the clouds and watch where you're going?" My sister, Temari yells at me. I think I just stepped on her heel.

I smirk, "Sorry, maybe next time you'll get out of the way."

She is about to yell back at me when our brother, Gaara speaks. "Shut up you two. I didn't come here to listen to your annoying voices bickering."

We both shut up immediately; we knew Gaara would kill us if he wanted to.

When we got inside the village, I absentmindedly started looking for her. Yeah, it was weird and stalkerish, but I wanted to see if she remembered me.

Gaara and Sensei vanished from view so it was only me and Temari. Great, just what I need, the blond bimbo following me around. We were walking around for a good ten minutes before we ran into three kids. One was female, kind of hot. She had long pink hair and blue eyes. The other ones were male. One was the same age as the girl, blond and clad in an orange jumpsuit. The smallest one was a brunette little boy with a long scarf.

They were talking about something that I didn't care about. I wasn't really listening. I walked over to the girl and leaned close to her with my hand against the fence behind her.

"Hey there," I say smirking. "Wanna ditch these losers and come hang with a real man?"

The blond behind me yells something that sounded like "Hey get away from her!" but I wasn't listening. Something flew through the air and hit my hand. I looked behind me annoyed, about to kill the annoying little kid. I saw that it wasn't the blond, but some dark haired boy. He was sitting in a tree, tossing a rock up and down, trying to look all macho. How annoying.

"Who are you?" I ask my voice filled with annoyance.

The girl answered my question, "Sasuke!" She was totally swooning over him. Not hot.

"Sasuke? Sasuke Uchiha?" I marvel. Popori had told me about him.

He nods, "You two are Temari and Kunkuro of the Sand I presume?" he says. I nod then glance at Temari who is completely drooling over this punk. Gross.

"Yeah that's us. Popori tell you bout me?" I ask.

He nods, "And if I were you I would keep my hands off of other girls. Popori doesn't like back stabbers."

I'm fuming. What the hell is he talking about? All I did was talk to the little lady. It's not like I was making out with her or anything.

I'm about to kick the kid's ass when Gaara appears beside him. The punk looks as shocked as I feel. "Kunkuro, Temari. This isn't our business. We've come to participate in the Chunin exams, not make trouble with unimportant bystanders."

"Yes, Gaara," My sister and I say in unison.

We hurry off to the place where our first test will be held. As we walk past the twerps, I glare at the Sasuke kid. He had no business telling me I was a back stabber –which I'm not. It's not like we're in a relationship or anything. There is no commitment here. Is there?

~Popori's POV~

My team and I walk into the place where the first test will be held. We saw Lee's team when we came in. They looked stronger than before. Well, I guess everyone looks stronger.

When we go into the big room, we see that there are already a lot of people here. It amazes me how many people from many different villages are here. When I see that there are Sound ninja here, I grit my teeth. They are all going down.

We sit down at our own table. I look around and glare at any Sound ninja that dare to make eye contact with me. I know I'm being judgmental, but hey, a Sound killed my family.

I'm looking around when I see Sasuke's team walk in. I smile as I see a blond hug him. The girl beside him with the pink hair must be Sakura, because she looks absolutely pissed. I chuckle as a plan to piss them both off forms in my head.

I glance at my team, "Watch this." I say as I stand.

They both follow in my lead. Shoji is grinning like an idiot at the sight of the two girls. I smirk then run over to Sasuke and throw my arms around his neck.

"Sasuke-kun!" I squeal like an adoring fan girl.

He smirks then says in his cool voice, "Hey, Pori-chan."

Both girls look absolutely devastated. I laugh at them.

"Don't worry you two, Sasuke and I are only old time friends." I assure them. I love the way their faces crumbled as I hugged him, and then lit back up when I said that.

I sit on a high stool, looking at the teams. The blond girl is with a chubby boy with brown hair and a bored looking boy with dark hair.

"Who are you guys?" I ask.

They look like they want to know the same thing. The blond speaks for them, "I'm Ino. This is my team, Shikamaru," she points to the bored one, "And Choji." She gestures to the chubby one.

I hear a dog bark I glance around and see three more kids. "Kiba and Akamaru, Hinata, Shino! It's you guys!" Naruto says.

The boy with the dog, Kiba winks then says, "You know it!"

Hinata blushes then says quietly, "H-hey Naruto."

They are all looking at my team now so I introduce us. "Hey, I'm Popori. This is my team, Gontei and Shoji."

Shoji is whispering to Ino, making her giggle. I roll my eyes, "Don't be fooled. He's probably used that line on every girl he sees."

She puffs out her cheeks then smacks Shoji across the face. I smirk as Gontei crosses his arms across his chest and shakes his head.

Someone snakes their arms around my waist and whispers in my ear, "Hey there."

Before I can turn to stab this guy in the face, Gontei has him pinned to the floor with a poison needle held to his neck. I can hear familiar laughter coming towards us.

I look up and smile as I see the blond, "Temari! Hey, how are you!"

She smiles brightly at me and gives me a hug. "I'm great, now that I see you're still fun to be around!"

I giggle then look at the guy Gontei has pinned down. I look up at her and ask, "Who's the kitty with the face paint?"

Temari bursts out laughing again. The boy looks up at me with a smirk and says, "Did those days back in Suna not mean anything to you? I thought we had something."

I gasp, and then shove Gontei aside. I gather him in a strangling hug yelling, "Kuro-kun!"

He chuckles. I'm about to say how happy I am to see him when I feel his hand slide down my back to off-limit territory. I slap him across the face and instead say, "I see you've gotten worse. Pervert."

He smirks again, "What do you expect? I'm in the presence of a hot girl. What, am I supposed to just look?"

I grin crookedly at him, "Yeah."

He rolls his eyes, "Well, that's a problem." He pulls me back in for another hug. He hugs me so tight that I can't push him away. I groan then just give up and rest my face in his chest.

Man, he's gotten taller. I think to myself. Well of course he has, it's been years since I've seen him last. I kind of miss being able to jump on his back and knock him on his face. I bet if I did that now, he'd grab my legs and never let me go. I wonder if I'd mind . . . What am I thinking? Of course I would. That would be extremely . . . whatever.

I blush when I notice that he's still holding me and everyone is staring at us. I bite his arm to make him let go.

"Ouch," he complains. He smirks then adds, "What, you like it rough?"

I blush then punch him in the arm, hard. "Shut it you pervert."

Temari is rolling her eyes at us, "You guys fight like an old married couple."

I yell, "I'm not old!" at the same time that Kunkuro yells, "We're not married!"

I look at him and blush harder; I finally understand why Sasuke said the Chunin exams would make me happier.

AN: Yay! They have been reunited at last! I love how Gontei acts like an older brother, he's so protective. Love the reviews!