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Chapter 10: The Chunin Exams

I followed Temari and Shikamaru into a room filled with monitors showing each of the three exam rooms in different angles. As people started to file in, I recognized some. Neji, Hinata, and Choji were in room 1. Room 2 held Ino, Lee, and Shino. Then room 3 held Sakura, Kiba, and Tenten. When everyone was in the rooms and settled Shikamaru turned on the camera and began.

"I am Shikamaru Nara, the proctor for the first round of the chunin exams. Participants, take one sheet from the stack on the teachers desk then take any seat." He stopped to let them do as he asked.

"Round one is a written test. Read the questions carefully. The three questions are worth from the top: 30 points, 40 points, and 50 points. Each of you will answer just one of these questions. Your teams total points will determine pass or fail. If your team total exceeds 100, the team is disqualified. Then we'll take the average of teams who remain and teams who score below the average will be disqualified. Those over the average will pass."

We could hear the cries from some of the participants who didn't understand. I saw a few who started to try to explain the different combinations and try to figure out what to do.

'Thank Kami I don't have to do this.' I thought.

"The exam starts now." A timer that started to count down from 30 minutes appeared where Shikamaru was.

People started to either freak out or try to understand what they had to do. Neji and Sakura looked deep in thought.

"What's the whole point of this first round exam?" Temari asked Shikamaru.

"The point of it is to think about how your other two team members will score. Or rather, how to make your two team members get a certain score."

Temari looked back at the screens, "That gives an advantage to teams who know jutsu to contact each other."

Shikamaru stretched. "If that's the case, that's fine. All It means is that those teams that have those skills will get 100 points."

"And the rest have to suck it up and figure something out."

Shikamaru spoke again and said, "If the point was to test strength, I wouldn't be a chunin."

I smiled as I listened. It's one thing to watch the exams through a laptop screen but it's a lot different when its real life. I turned my attention back to the monitors. People were starting to get up and walk around. Sakura and another guy were writing on the chalkboard trying to figure out different combinations. As the minutes ticked by people were becoming restless. I noticed a few were trying to contact their teammates, some, including a rain nin and Ino, actually succeeding. Others had begun to yell, causing so much noise that it was probably hard to hear.

"How can they contact anyone if they are all yelling so loud?" I asked more to myself.

"Shouldn't we stop them?" Temari said.

Shikamaru smiled. "If I stop them, the exam will be meaningless."

I continued watching. I saw Neji and Hinata use the eight trigrams: air palm to each other in the back of the room.

'I wonder what that was for?'

"Neji's planning something." Shikamaru said. Neji explained to the others what he was doing, basically pounding on the walls in certain knocks to tell the others which question to do, to let all the others pass too. Everyone was shocked.

"So that's his plan!" Shikamaru exclaimed.

"Everybody passes…He really got you there Mr. Proctor." Said Temari.

Shikamaru got out his pen and clipboard, "Well, I've gotten a good look at his leadership skills."

A sand ninja went up to Neji and said that he will help. Neji told him to knock on the wall four times. The man did so but at the last second, kicked the wall a fifth time. Everyone in the room was shocked and angry. Even I was a bit angry at him for doing so. However, Neji said it was fine. He would just have to change which question he answered. The two other classrooms heard five knocks meaning they should answer the 50 point question. Since that already equals 100 points everyone in room 1 doesn't have to answer a question. All the others in rooms 2 and 3 figured that out and answered the question.

I smiled. "I'm happy they figured it out."

However, as time went on people in room 1 started to doubt the judgment and answered a question. Oh well for them I guess.

When the 30 minutes were up Shikamaru spoke to everyone, "Time's up. Everyone flip your sheets over. Continuing to the second part of the exam. Question, your team is on a mission and the enemy spots you. In order to shake off their pursuit, one teammate must stay behind as a decoy. Who will you choose knowing that the decoy faces certain death? Write down your answer on the reverse side of the sheet. In order to pass, all three members on the team must have the same answer. And the member named as the decoy will be considered killed and eliminated from the exams. You have three minutes for this. Begin."

You could tell that people were freaking out again while others were calm. When the three minutes were up people came into the classroom and took up everyone's papers. Everyone waited until the papers were graded, then the ones who passed were sent to the schoolyard. Shikamaru, Temari, and I waited in the yard for everyone. Sakura's, Neji's, and Hinata's team passed along with many others. Shikamaru congratulated all who were there.

The guy from the sand realized that he and his teammate were the only ones who only had two people. Everyone else still had three members. Neji, Lee, and Tenten explained that they would never sacrifice one of their own and that thinking of letting one of your comrades' die was already the wrong answer.

Temari put her fan down. "I am Temari of the sand. I'm in charge of round two of the exams. Too many teams passed the first round, so we're going to narrow it down some more. First off, round two is still a team battle. Anyone without their third member is disqualified!"

That sand ninja didn't like that all. 'I hope he learned his lesson though.'

"Furthermore, round two will be held in the village Hidden in the Sand. We will meet at the demon desert checkpoint. After the first 30 teams, all who follow are to be disqualified. Finally, as in round one all fighting is prohibited on the way there. That is all."

Neji's team was the first to go followed by Sakura's and Hinata's. Then everyone else understood and started running for their lives. Shikamaru and Temari exchanged final words before Temari looked to me.

"You ready to go?"

I nodded my head. "Ready as I'll ever be."

Temari jumped up heading to the front gates, "You better not slow me down."

I smirked, "I'll try my best."

Three days later, Temari left me at the checkpoint to go back to Suna for a while. I sat down at the gate, panting. Even though I wasn't part of the race, Temari got there fast. I even had to ride on her back since I couldn't keep up for very long. I felt like I was dying but I was happy too. I made it in one piece plus the run helped me learn where I needed to improve my stamina. Someone opened the gate and showed me to my room. It was small since I didn't have to share it with any teammates.

Later that day people started showing up and soon enough 30 teams were panting at the gates just like I had been. I saw team Kurenai, team Guy, and Sakura's team and smiled.

'They made it.'

Everyone was shown to their rooms and were allowed to rest. I laid down on the bed in my room and waited for dinner. A little after the sun had set it was announced that the food was ready in the cafeteria. I went down there and sat beside Hinata.

"I'm so glad you all made it." I said.

Tenten, on the other side of the table, smiled. "Of course we all made it."

Everyone was looking around at the people who were here. Some looked happy while others looked ready to fight. It made me shudder a little.

A big sweaty man from the grass village got up and went over to the table where the food was laid out. Many people jumped up and pushed him away, not letting him eat everything. In the process, the mans sweat got everywhere almost landing on the food. Neji used his rotation to stop the sweat but ended up breaking the tables and thus making the food fall on the floor. The sand village didn't look to happy and the teammates of the sweaty man didn't like what had happened to their comrade. A fight soon occurred. Most of the leaf tried to stop it but the sand, grass, and even the rain kept fighting. I stayed in the corner and watched and prayed that it would end.

'This is NOT supposed to happen.'

We heard a boom then a girl with orange eyes and mint green hair kinda like mine, though mine is a bit lighter and greener, appeared through the window, shattering it in the process. "Tah-da! So the party's already started you guys?! I wonder if I can make a hundred friends."

Everyone stopped fighting to look at the strange girl. I noticed that she had a waterfall protector on her right arm.

"Who are you?" Tenten asked.

"I'm Fuu of the Hidden Waterfall!" she smiled. She kept going on while everyone calmed down from the fight. People started leaving or going their own ways.

"So much for dinner." Choji said sadly.

"W-wait. Where's everyone going?" Fuu asked but everyone ignored her. I had a weird gut feeling that that girl was important. That there was something special about her. Fuu sulked and sat on the ground.

I walked over and stood in front of her, "I will be your friend."

She looked up at me, her eyes shining bright. "R-really?!"

I nodded. "Yep."

She jumped up and started spinning around. "Yay! A friend a friend!"

I laughed. She took my hands, "Thank you so much! Are you a ninja too? I don't see a forehead protector on you."

"I'm not a ninja, not yet anyways. I'm from the leaf and am here for moral support pretty much." I explained.

"Ooooohhhh. That's cool." She said with a smile.

'This girl is crazy but I like her.' I thought with a small smile of my own.

We heard a scream from outside the broken window. A female sand ninja ran in and looked out, "Whose voice was that?! Did someone go outside?"

I went over to the window, "I have no idea but it sounds like someone did."

"Giant scorpions come out at night during this time of year!" the female explained. "That's why you were explained not to go outside."

Fuu stood up and exclaimed, "You have things like that!" She ran up and jumped through the window.

"Hey!" both the sand nin and I shouted.

"This isn't good is it?" I breathed. She shook her head. We ran out the door and headed downstairs. I opened the door that lead to the outside. Sand was blowing so I couldn't really see anything but I could hear screams. I heard a blast then everything became quiet. The sand settled revealing Fuu, Sakura, Choji, and Ino beside (what I hoped to be) a very large, very DEAD scorpion. I ran over to them along with a few others, including Neji's team. I looked up to see Fuu running and spinning around on top of the scorpion.

'She's definitely something else.'

"What's going on!?" I heard a voice say. I turned around to see Guy, Temari, and Gaara heading our way.

"It's prohibited to go outside at night." Temari said. "The second exam begins at daybreak. Go back inside."

Choji complained a bit but Guy straightened him out, secretly giving him some food. As everyone went back inside I called up to Fuu. "Hey you can come back down now!"

She smiled and jumped down next to me.

"You may have a few rivals now." Gaara said. Fuu looked to him.

"I don't care about rivals or allies. I want to make 100 friends!" she ran over to them "Would you guys like to be my friends!?"

Her teammates ran over and began to drag her away. "They are the kazekage and jonin supervisors! Watch what you say!"

I laughed then turned to Gaara. "I will head inside too. Goodnight." I bowed and walked inside heading to my room. I once again laid in bed. I hope the second exams go well…

The next morning at the crack of dawn everyone met up at the top of the roof. Gaara, the jonin proctors and I stood on top of one of the pillars looking down on the participants. Temari walked forward and explained the second exam. Everyone will be given either a heaven or an earth scroll. They have three days to get to the tower in the center of the desert with each kind of scroll. They could use any means necessary to get the scroll they don't have and because of the dangers, everyone had to sign a consent form.

Once everyone signed the form and got a scroll, each team went to a different area along the wall to start from. Once everyone got to their places a flare was shot into the air as a signal to start.

'Good luck everyone.'

I was lead to Gaara's office. The inside held a desk in the middle of the room. On the left held a table with a miniature layout of the Demon Desert. On the right was another table with a few chairs. Gaara walked past me and sat at the desk.

"You can sit at the table if you like." He said.

"Thank you. Is there anything I can help you with?" I asked. I went over to over to one of the chairs and sat down.

"Not right now."

I nodded. Most of the day was quite boring. Gaara had paperwork to do so he spent most of the day doing that. He let me look over some unimportant forms for him which bided some of my time. The rest of the day was spent looking out the widow, accidentally taking naps, holding small conversations with Gaara, and meditating. I made an epic house of cards at one point which I was very proud of.

Before sundown I told him about my chakra wisps. "They are whitish-pink and they seem to want to form into something. I can't really create anything yet but look.." I released some of the wisps from hand before returning it to my chakra system.

"That's very interesting." Gaara said. "I wonder what you could do once you further control that."

"Right?" At that moment two sand nin knocked. Gaara told them they could enter. They came in and put a stack of forms on the table.

They said that according to the investigative team, the two males traveling with Fuu are actually jonin, not genin. I was shocked.

"What are those waterfall scheming?!" one of the sand nin said.

Gaara put down one of the forms, "Let me handle this. This information is to not go out of this room." The ninja looked like they wanted to say something but were cut off. "The second exam will continue uninterrupted. Understood?"

The two nodded and bowed their heads before leaving.

"Well that's….interesting." I said. "Last night, during the failed dinner I felt as if there was something important about Fuu."

"I see." Gaara walked over to the table holding the layout of the Demon Desert. He lifted his right hand over his closed left eye.

'He's using his third eye.' I thought in awe.

A few moments later Gaara jumped back. "What the-?!"

"Gaara, what's wrong?" I asked standing up.

He went back over to his desk and looked at Fuu's sheet. "She's a…."

"A what?" I said walking over to him.

Gaara faced me. "She's a jinjuriki."

I looked back at him astonished. "Really? That is important."

Gaara put the papers back down and just stared. I put a hand on his shoulder. "You okay?"

He nodded. "Yeah. It's just something I didn't expect."

I looked him over, making sure he really was alright. Suddenly, I felt something unlock in my head and my mind was thrown elsewhere. I saw memories of what had happened that day in the desert between Neji's team and a sand team consisting of Shira, Yome, and Sen. I saw the fight between other sand ninja and Lee's fight with Shira. I also saw Fuu and her teammates preparing for the night.

When I came back to reality I was on the floor. I looked up to see Gaara beside me with a worried look on his face. "What happened?" he asked.

"I just had another memory…or memories. Of what happened today in the desert." I explained. Gaara nodded and helped me up. "Thanks."

"Of course. Will you be alright?"

"Yeah." I looked out the window. "It's dark."

Gaara nodded. "Let's turn in for the night. Remember, everything you heard in this room is to stay in this room."

"Yes. Goodnight, Gaara." I said and headed out the room.

"Goodnight, Tibi."

The second day was much like the first except I decided to venture out around the place. Around lunchtime I went to the cafeteria where I ate with Kankuro and Temari. We had a nice interesting conversation about fans and puppets and how they are a big part of Suna's history. After that, I went on the roof to think for a while before heading back to Gaara's office. At dusk I had another bout of memories suddenly unlock in my head. These contained Hinata and her groups fight, Sakura and their fight, as well as Neji and his teams fight in the ruins.

The third and final day, however, was much more interesting. Kankuro and Temari came in at one point while Gaara was spying on Fuu with his third eye. Kankuro asked if Gaara would like to eat with them but he declined. I did as well. After that they left and Gaara continued to use his third eye. After a while he stopped and looked out the window. I looked out as well.

"Wha-what is that?!" I shrieked. In the distance a massive cloud seemed to move towards us closer and closer.

"It's a massive sandstorm." He said. Not to long after a shinobi came in and explained the situation. Apparently, a massive sandstorm erupted without the long range sensory unit knowing or detecting it. The sensory barrier is thought to have been disrupted by someone which caused the unit to not be able to detect it. Kankuro and Temari were sent out with teams to get the participants while it has been ordered to protect Gaara and not allow him to leave his office.

Gaara merely nodded and the sand nin left. I looked over to him, "You are still going to go out there aren't you?"

"Yep."

"Can I come along?"

"No."

I frowned, "And why not?"

He looked over at me, "If you go out there I can't promise your safety."

"That's fine. I have a gut feeling that something big is about to happen and I want to be there when it happens." I explain.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm very sure."

Gaara nodded, "Very well. I am going to create sand clones of us. Pretend you are in a meditative state."

I nodded and did as he asked. Soon a clone that looked just like me appeared. He created another sand clone of himself sitting in his seat. I walked over to him and we headed out using his sand transportation.

Here's the chapter :) Dear Kami it was longer than I expected. I know I may have left some stuff out or changed some things a bit but it's pretty accurate. The next chapter will be about the enemy traitor in Suna. You will also see Tibi fight. Yay!

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