(A/N) And we are back. Most of you seemed to think that my first lemon was adequate, although a little short. I'm quite happy with that.

I would really like to thank soulfistx for being one of the best users of constructive criticism ever. He really helps me a lot, and is like an after posting beta reader. He also just started a new story, which I should really call a novel based on its intended length, called "Naruto: A Tale of Those who Endure". I would suggest checking it out. He's a damn good writer even though this is his first story.

I've also been in contact with Crenshinibon74, who is a new writer of fanfics like me, and I have been helping him out with his new story. It is quite the interesting story so far, and I would recommend checking it out, and leaving a review if you like it. His story is called "Naruto Namikaze, the Kitsune Hokage".

Both of these new fanfics can be found under my favorites list, and both authors would seriously appreciate if you left them some reviews. They are both Naruhina stories and Crenshinibon's is a Hanyou story.

Anyways, on with MY story!

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Chapter 26: Before the Exams

Naruto was awakened the next morning by Hinata lovingly kissing his lips, and they got out of bed together. Instead of showering separately like they had been doing for the entire time that they had lived in their home, they took a shower together. Both were rather sore from the previous day's activities, so nothing came from it, other than two squeaky clean bodies. As the two were getting dressed, there was a bright flash of light which died to reveal Ammy, who had a grin on her face.

Naruto and Hinata ignored her as they finished putting on their clothes, until she said "So what are you going to name the kids?"

"What kids?" replied Naruto.

Ammy's grin widened and she said "Oh, you know, YOUR kids."

Naruto finally put two and two together and realized what she meant. He sputtered out "B-b-b-but H-h-h-hina-chan's not p-p-pregnant! S-she used a p-protection jutsu, r-right Hina-chan?"

Hinata's face was a brilliant shade of red at this point, and she said "Ano…I was in heat. Protection was the last thing in my mind at that point."

Naruto was starting to panic a little. While he really wanted to raise a family with Hinata, he didn't want to just yet. Taking a deep breath, he said "Wait, there is no way that we can know if Hina-chan is pregnant yet. There is a chance that she didn't get pregnant. Unless you know something that we don't, Ammy."

Ammy giggled and said "You're right. I do know TWO things that you don't know. The first is that when a Hanyou goes into heat, she becomes infinitely more fertile, and pregnancy is pretty much guaranteed." Naruto's face paled upon hearing this. "The second thing that I know is that I was joking with you two. I know for a fact that Hinata is not pregnant."

Upon hearing this, Naruto was extremely relieved, until the logical portion of his brain picked out something that didn't make much sense. He asked Ammy "How could you possibly know that? I never heard or saw from any of my tenants yesterday."

Ammy just giggled again and said "I just kept my promise to Hinata to stay away from you two while you had your fun. I just happened to leave her with a, whatdoyouguyscallit, a jutsu that made it impossible for her to get pregnant, since I knew that she was in heat, and I figured that you two wanted to wait a while before she had your kids."

Hinata finally interjected, saying "But you never left Ruto-kun's body yesterday, if I remember correctly. And how did you perform a jutsu? You don't have chakra."

"You do remember correctly. I left with the others as soon as I felt you go into heat. That was around two in the morning, while you two were fast asleep. And I can perform jutsu by substituting celestial energy for the chakra that you use." Answered Ammy.

Hinata muttered to herself while blushing bright red "So that's what gave me that dream…" before she said out loud "I appreciate what you did, Ammy-chan. Naru-kun and I want to have a family, but we are not ready for it just yet. There are still too many things to be done before we can settle down. However, we will get you back for messing with our heads. So keep your eyes open."

Ammy giggled and said "I would like to see you two try!" before vanishing in a flash of light.

Hinata walked up to Naruto and gave him a big kiss, before saying "I wouldn't have minded too much if we started our family earlier, but there are still so many things we have to do, and our kids would be easy targets for our enemies."

Naruto wrapped Hinata into a hug and said "I wouldn't have either. Starting a family with you is one of my biggest dreams, but it's dangerous for us to now. It's better if we wait. Anyways, let's head down and get breakfast."

The couple went down to the kitchen, and while Hinata was making breakfast for them, she asked "So what do you want to do today, Ruto-kun?"

"We should probably train a little with Ammy. I'm curious about this "celestial brush" that she mentioned and what it can do. Also, I expect that Kakashi-san will be returning around noon, so we should meet up with Haku-chan and ask if she wants to stay with us. We should also find Anko nee-chan and ask about the chunin exams. They are in a week, and she is the one who has to enter us." Answered Naruto.

Hinata laid Naruto's breakfast in front of him and said "Well its 11:00 right now, so we can eat breakfast and take a nice walk before we meet up with Haku-chan. It would probably be best to be there when they report to the Hokage. We can find Anko sometime in the afternoon along with train with Ammy."

"A walk would be nice. We'll go with what you said." Responded Naruto.

They finished breakfast and washed their dishes, before leaving the compound and heading towards nowhere in particular as they walked at a leisurely pace with their hands and tails intertwined.

Midway through there walk, they heard a familiar voice from around a corner scream "LET ME GO YOU BIG BULLY!"

Naruto and Hinata quickly hurried around the corner where they saw Konohamaru being held in the air by his scarf by a 14 year old boy who wore a black bodysuit and what looked like makeup on his face. Udon and Moegi were standing on guard a little ways from the boy, and they looked like they were formulating a strategy to get their leader back. Behind the boy was a girl who had four blonde pigtails and a huge fan strapped to her back.

The girl spoke up and said "Kankuro, let the brat go. If you hurt him, you'll make our village look bad."

The newly named Kankuro scoffed and said "So what? He ran in to me! I hate little brats like this. I say we teach him a lesson in pain."

It was at this point that Naruto and Hinata got there, and Naruto said "I wouldn't do that if I were you. This "brat" as you call him is the Hokage's grandson. He is also my student, and I don't take kindly to people hurting those close to me."

Kankuro looked at Naruto and said "What's with those tails? Are you two some kind of freaks? You two don't seem that strong to me!"

Naruto was about to answer when a dry and bored sounding voice came out of the tree that was next to them, saying "Kankuro, stop before I kill you. You're an embarrassment to our village."

Kankuro nervously dropped Konohamaru and said "H-hey G-gaara! I d-didn't s-see you t-there."

A swirl of sand came from the tree, and settled down in front of Naruto and Hinata, and reformed into Gaara.

Naruto grinned and said "I was wondering how long you were going to stay in that tree. Anyways, let's have a little chat!"

Before anyone realized what was going on, Naruto clapped and they all drifted into unconsciousness.

(Shared Mindscape)

Kankuro and the girl opened their eyes to find themselves inside a blank expanse of space. They looked around and were immediately terrified. They saw the two people who were just outside standing away from them, and behind them was a giant nine-tailed fox, who looked at their expressions with amusement in its eyes. They also saw the three kids, each of them looking at the fox with wonder in their eyes. There was the sudden noise of metal being hit behind them, so they whirled around to see Gaara who was staring at what appeared to be a giant cage. Inside the cage was a giant tanuki that appeared to be made of hardened sand that was trying to break the cage.

Gaara turned back to Naruto and Hinata and asked "What's going on?"

Naruto grinned and said "You have been subconsciously controlled by your bijuu to act insane. However, since we are in a mindscape, your actual consciousness can't be controlled by said bijuu, especially since I locked him up as a precaution. So we can speak freely here without your thoughts being muddled."

The fox then spoke up, saying "Although Shukaku really shouldn't be acting like this. While he was never the brightest bulb, he was never downright insane. There is something effecting his mind, just like he was effecting yours, making both of you insane."

Gaara was still in shock, as his brain was trying to catch up with how he had been acting in the real world. It took him a moment to think through what had happened in his life, but after he fully remembered everything, he immeadiately turned to Kankuro and the girl and said "Kankuro, Temari, I'm sorry with how I've acted. I haven't been myself." Kankuro and Temari just stood there with their jaws wide open, and Gaara turned back to Naruto and said "My name is Sabaku no Gaara. These are my siblings, Kankuro and Temari. I'm sorry for how they acted. May I ask who you two are?"

Naruto grinned and said "My name is Naruto Uzumaki, and this lovely lady is my wife and mate, Hinata Uzumaki. I am the former jailer of the fuzzball behind me."

Kurama growled at the fuzzball comment, but he let it slide. Gaara on the other hand was in shock once again at this information. He said "Former jailer? What do you mean?"

Hinata giggled and said "My Naru-kun merged with Kurama-sensei, becoming a Hanyou. He then made me his mate, transforming me."

Naruto then picked up after Hinata and continued "And you're the host of the Ichibi, Shukaku. Hina-chan and I have been trying to convince as many jinchuriki as we can to merge with their bijuu, so you're next on that list. However, we have to do something about the fact that Shukaku is madder than that Sheogorath guy."

Suddenly, there was a blinding purple flash, and a voice echoed out "Madder than me? Blasphemy! There is no one madder than the madgod himself!"

The flash died down to reveal Sheogorath in all of his mad glory. He looked over to Naruto and Hinata and said "I'm delighted to see that you two are doing well. So well in fact that you managed to convince a goddess to stay with you! Although, I'm slightly ashamed to say that it was my fault that said goddess no longer attends our trans-dimensional god parties. Malacath really was not good at that party, and I was the one who told him to come. But I do have to say that she gave him the beating that he deserved, so all's well that ends well!"

Hinata piped up and said "Excuse me, Sheogorath-sama, but what are you doing here?"

Sheogorath gave Hinata a grin and said "I am here because someone inferred that something was madder than me. Therefore, to defend my title of "The Ultimate Insane Being", I will make my competition the opposite!"

Sheogorath snapped his fingers, and the cage around Shukaku vanished. Shukaku looked around for a moment before saying "What the hell is going on? The last thing I remember was drinking the juice of that cactus fruit, and now I'm here!"

Sheogorath let out a loud laugh before saying "Oh, isn't that ironic! I just cured something of an affliction that I indirectly caused! He drank the juice of the madtus cactus that I created, causing him to go insane! Anyways, my title has been defended, so I've got to run. There are people to drop from 1000 feet in the air!"

With that, Sheogorath vanished in a flash of purple light. Kurama then walked to a separate portion of the mindscape with Shukaku and began filling him in on the events that he missed.

Naruto turned to Gaara and said "I take it that you guys are here for the chunin exams, right?" At the sand siblings nod he continued "Then I'm going to ask you-"

Gaara interrupted Naruto by saying "Wait a moment. There is something that I feel that you should know about the exams. My village has signed a pact with the new village of Otogakure, and were planning on attacking during the exam finals. I'm no longer insane because of you, and I feel like this should help repay my dept."

Naruto was thoughtful for a moment, before he said "Thank you very much for that information. You have just saved a lot of lives by telling me that. However that changes my plans a bit, so I'm now going to ask you to wait till the end of the attack before becoming a Hanyou, and I would also like you to still act insane, so that your village doesn't suspect anything."

Gaara let out a small smile (shocking Kankuro and Temari once more) before saying "Very well. I for one do not agree with this attack. My father, the kazekage, has been acting strange ever since he first met Otogakure's leader. I do not think that he is in his right mind."

At this, Kurama and Shukaku came back, and Naruto said "Well that's that then. We'll see you guys around." He then clapped his hands again and the mindscape dissolved.

(Real World)

Everybody blinked as they came back to their senses, and Gaara turned away from everyone else and said "Kankuro, Temari, come. We shouldn't bother these people anymore."

Kankuro and Temari then turned and left with Gaara, still in a little shock after what happened.

Konohamaru and his friends were bouncing up and down around Naruto and Hinata, and were pegging them both with questions. However, Naruto wasn't in the mood for this, so he said "Enough. I'll answer your questions tomorrow when I teach you guys the rasengan. Hina-chan and I will be late for something if we stay here any longer, so run along."

Konohamaru looked a little downtrodden, but he perked up and said "Fine boss! I'll see you tomorrow!" Before running off with his friends.

Naruto looked at the watch he had started to wear, and saw that it was 12:05. So he said to Hinata "We should just head straight to the Hokage's tower. Kakashi should be there by now, so hopefully we can catch them in their meeting. Actually, why don't you check the Hokage tower with your Byakugan, and if they are there, take us there with Sorime."

Hinata nodded her head and activated her Byakugan. She looked towards the Hokage tower and saw everyone in the Hokage's room, so she grabbed Naruto's hand and warped.

(Hokage Tower)

Hiruzen had just finished the mission debriefing with Kakashi, and he had a slight headache. He now had to decide where Haku could stay. Zabuza was no problem, as there was a vacant room in ANBU headquarters, and since he was on probation, the ANBU could keep an eye on him. However, the room was a single person bedroom, so Haku couldn't stay there. Hiruzen sighed as it seemed like he would have to go through the council to get Haku a home, as it was unlikely that anyone would let her stay at their home.

As he thought these things, there was a sudden flash of lavender, and Naruto and Hinata appeared in the middle of the room. He was startled, but hid it very well. He calmly asked "What are you two doing here? We are finishing a mission debriefing, and I have to find a house for Haku to stay at while I try to get a permanent place for her to stay. Finally, how the hell did you just appear out of thin air?"

Naruto grinned and said "Well, you're in luck! Haku-chan can stay in our estate for as long as she wants. We are here to tell you that. And Hinata warped us here using a jutsu she made."

Hiruzen sighed. Of course Naruto would do something like this. So he said "Very well, if Haku wishes, she may stay at your estate. Is that what you desire, Haku?"

Haku looked extremely happy at the fresh turn of events, and said "That would be quite acceptable."

Hiruzen was also happy with the turn of events, as they meant less paperwork for him, and said "Very well then, you are all dismissed except for Kakashi. I would like to have a word with him. We will decide Haku's ranking in the ninja ranks later."

Teams 7 and 15, along with Zabuza and Haku walked out the door, leaving Kakashi behind. When the door shut, Hiruzen said to Kakashi "I would like to have a word with you about your team. From the mission report, it can be inferred that Kiba was the only one to follow orders. That leads me to one of two things. One is that you are not leading your team correctly. And two is that both Sasuke and Sakura are ignoring your position as team leader. Which one is it?"

Kakashi sighed and said "Unfortunately it is the latter. Kiba is a good kid with a lot of potential, but Sasuke has serious mental problems, and Sakura has an extreme case of fangirlism. Although there is actually hope for her if we could find a way to break her out of it. Sasuke on the other hand is beyond hope in my opinion. I am going to let my team take the chunin exams. I do not expect any to pass though, and this will hopefully help open their eyes a little to the real world."

Hiruzen sighed and said "I was worried that that might be your answer. I will allow your team to take the exams, but I want you to keep an eye on Sasuke. If he is as unstable as I think he is, he could become a danger to his team and all of Konoha. You are dismissed. I get the feeling that the chunin exams this time around will be unlike any we have seen before."

Kakashi vanished in a swirl of leaves, leaving the Hokage to think about the upcoming exams.

(With Naruto, Hinata, and Haku)

The trio had just arrived in front of the Namikaze compound. Naruto marked Haku's chakra, and they stepped inside. Naruto and Hinata lead Haku to Yugito's room while explaining the ground rules to her, as well as the fact that she would be staying in the same room as another friend of thiers, and when they arrived at the room, they knocked on the door.

A moment later, Yugito popped her head out and asked "What?"

Naruto grinned and said "Say hello to your new roommate, Haku."

Yugito squealed in delight, and brushed past Naruto and Hinata and grabbed Haku's arm, before dragging her into their room, leaving a stunned Naruto and Hinata standing there. Realizing her manners, Yugito went back to Naruto and Hinata and said "Thank you very much for giving me a roommate. No offense to you guys, but it can get a little lonely in here, as you two are always together. Now if you don't mind, I would like to get to know my roommate better" before shutting the door in Naruto and Hinata's faces.

Hinata giggled and turned towards Naruto, saying "Well I think Yugito likes having a roommate. She can show Haku-chan around the house when she finishes interrogating her. We still have to find Anko-sensei so that she can sign us up for the exams, so let's go do that. Although I have no clue where she would be."

Naruto grinned and said "Just check every dango shop in Konoha with your Byakugan until you find her, it's really that simple. Its 1:30 right now, so she should be out getting her early afternoon dango snack."

Hinata complied and started checking the dango stores. She quickly found Anko sitting on a bench near one, munching away on a stick of dango. Hinata grabbed Naruto's hand and warped with Sorime.

Anko was happily eating her dango when there was a flash of lavender in front of her, which died to reveal Naruto and Hinata.

Anko was either completely unfazed by their flashy entrance, or she was completely lost in her own dango world. Most likely the latter, as she didn't even acknowledge that they were there until Naruto reached towards the plate that she kept her extra dango on. As soon as he was about to grab a stick of dango, Anko snapped into action and appeared behind Naruto with a kunai at his neck.

She then realized who it was that she was about to decapitate, and said "I thought I've told you enough times that if you touch my dango, you will get hurt, even if your my unofficial little bro."

The Naruto she was threatening then vanished in a puff of smoke, and the real Naruto walked up behind her, saying "I learned my lesson to not touch your dango last time, sis. However, you seemed to be a little lost, as you didn't even react when Hina-chan and I materialized in front of your face."

Anko just grinned and said "I was lost in the wonders of dango. Now what do you two want?"

"We want to be signed up for the chunin exams." Replied Naruto.

Anko picked up another stick of dango and said while eating it "You two already are. I signed you guys up as soon as you had the correct amount of missions completed. I've been keeping an eye on the missions you guys have done, and I have to say that your record is damn impressive. You make me proud as your fake sensei! Now scram you two! I have dango to eat."

Naruto and Hinata looked at each other and shrugged, before Hinata took Naruto's hand and warped them to an empty training ground.

Immediately upon arriving, Ammy appeared in a flash of light. She then said "It's time to teach you two about the celestial brush. Once you have mastered it, it will become one of your most powerful weapons, and one of your most useful tools. However, that is a looooooooooong way away from now. So let's get to work! The first thing that you two need to do is learn how to draw upon your celestial energy at will…"

(Timeskip no Jutsu)

The week past extremely quickly for Naruto and Hinata. They didn't take any missions, and focused mostly on training with Ammy. For a goddess, she was quite the slave driver. It turns out that the easiest way to start drawing on celestial energy was to be put in a life or death situation, something which Ammy was quite happy to put them in. Naruto and Hinata, while being quite strong, were nowhere near the level of a goddess, and she soundly beat them down, repeatedly, until they finally were able to draw upon their celestial energy. She then started teaching them the brush techniques by having them draw the markings for the technique on paper, and then channeling celestial energy through the marking. This was the starting step for learning how to use the celestial brush. The next step was to do the same thing, but without the paper. Ammy explained that the true power of the celestial brush lied in the fact that the world was your canvas. This step was also the most difficult step of learning the celestial brush. By the end of the week, Naruto and Hinata had barely mastered it. Now it came down to them to practice as often as possible.

Other than Ammy's training, the only thing that made the week different was something that Naruto and Hinata called the Hakito incident.

(Flashback no Jutsu)

Naruto and Hinata had just come back from surviving against Ammy's onslaught, and were going to ask Yugito if she had any spare bandages, as the number that Naruto and Hinata had was rapidly diminishing. They knocked on her door and heard "Come in, it's unlocked." So they entered, and were quite shocked at what they saw.

They saw Haku and Yugito cuddling together on their bed, but Haku was now 18 and had a yellow and a green eye, as well as two flaming tails and a pair of flaming ears. What shocked them even more was the fact that after seeing them enter, Yugito gave Haku a passionate kiss.

Naruto stuttered out "A-are you t-two lesbians?"

The pair in question giggled, and they both said "We are bisexual!"

Naruto and Hinata then left the pair alone, having completely forgotten why they had gone there in the first place.

(Flashback no Jutsu KAI!)

During the week, Haku decided that she wanted to be a genin, and petitioned to be placed on team 8. While the Hokage initially went against it, after Haku revealed that she was Yugito's mate, he decided that she could join team 8, as having a team of four would balance out team 15's two members.

Naruto also revealed to the Hokage what Gaara had told him. Hiruzen immediately declared the information an S ranked secret, and said that they shouldn't tell anybody about it other than the other Hanyou. Hiruzen also said that he would work and bolster Konoha's defenses.

(Timeskip no Jutsu KAI!)

It was finally the morning of the chunin exams, and Naruto and Hinata had gotten up early so that they could get there on time. They had been told that they were to report to the academy in room 301, at 9:00, and no later. They had henged themselves back into their 13 year old selves, so that they wouldn't arouse suspicion with their appearance.

So when Naruto and Hinata got to the academy, they headed up the stairs to find a large crowd of genin standing in front of a room. They were being blocked by two kids who looked suspiciously like Izumo and Kotetsu, the two eternal chunin who were always seen guarding the main gate.

Naruto said to Hinata over their mind link "This must be some sort of test to weed out the weakest of the weak. We are on the second floor, and the test is on the third floor. There is a weak genjutsu over the room number, making it say 301 instead of 201. Let's just bypass this mess and go straight to the third floor."

They squeezed through the crowd and climbed the staircase to the third floor. They found room 301 and entered it. The room was a large classroom with a series of tables that sat three people a piece. There were also a few teams of genin lounging around, one of which was team 8. They had the sense to henge themselves as well, so all of the Hanyou looked like regular thirteen year olds. They also saw Gaara's team as well.

Naruto and Hinata walked up to the team and Naruto said "It looks like we are early. I'm glad to see you guys here."

Shino said "Likewise" and Yugito said in a low whisper "It looks like you two had the sense to hide your appearances. Also, that Suna nin over there seems to be one of us."

Naruto whispered back "I've already met him, and his name is Gaara. He's on our side. He isn't a Hanyou yet, but he will merge after the exams. He's the one who told me about the invasion."

Yugito nodded and they started waiting in silence. Gradually, the room filled up with genin, and at one point, both teams 10 and 7 entered together. Naruto and Hinata were both glad to see that Sasuke looked a little worse for wear, for whatever reason.

The rookies seemed to naturally clump together and Shikamaru said "It looks like the rookies are back together again. This is so troublesome."

Ino hit him atop the head and said "Of course you think that this is troublesome. You think EVERYTHING is troublesome."

Choji, who had been munching on some chips, said "Well he could be right, I mean look at all of the opposition. It looks pretty tough."

It was at this point that a genin in glasses walked over and said "Hey, you guys should keep it down. Everyone else is starting to look at you like you are prime targets."

Kiba piped up and said "And who are you?"

The bespectacled genin responded "The name's Kabuto. This is my seventh time taking the exam. I'm pretty experienced, so I'll give you rookies some information on whoever you want to know."

He held out a deck of cards and continued "These are my ninja info cards. I've been collecting data on everyone ever since I started taking the exams, so I have a pretty good amount of info stored in them."

Sasuke arrogantly strode forwards and said loudly "Tell me about Rock Lee and Naruto and Hinata Namikaze."

At this, several Iwa nin turned towards the rookies, and were suddenly quite intrigued with the rookie's conversation.

Naruto meanwhile was thinking "That idiot said our names out loud! I was hoping we could get through without them finding out, but thanks to emo boy over here, that's a no go."

Kabuto meanwhile said "Aww…you already know their names. That's no fun. Anyways, here we go." He took a card out and channeled some chakra into it, before saying "Rock Lee. He graduated a year before you guys, as the dead last. He has no talent whatsoever for ninjutsu or genjutsu, and relies solely on taijutsu. However, his taijutsu level is far higher than the average genin due to focused training. He is on team 9 with his teammates Tenten and Neji Hyuuga."

Kabuto put away Lee's card before saying "I'll do the next two together, as they have the same last name." He pulled out two cards and channeled chakra into them. He took a breath and blinked, but when he opened his eyes, the cards were gone.

"I would appreciate it if you didn't reveal any information about my wife and I, Kabuto-san, so we will be confiscating your cards for the time being." Said Naruto, bringing everyone's attention to him. He gave the card with Hinata's information to Hinata herself, and continued "Most information regarding my wife and I is classified anyways, so you wouldn't learn much."

Sasuke was furious that Naruto had shown him up again, but kept to himself, while all of the other rookies were thinking one thing "When did he move?"

Suddenly, there was a wave of killer intent that fell upon the rookies, and a figure dashed towards Kabuto and made a swipe at him. Kabuto barely dodged in time, when suddenly his glasses cracked and he started coughing up blood.

Two other people joined the attacker, and the one who had attacked said "You can put this on your silly little cards. The sound village genin are the ones who will be made chunin after the exams."

There was suddenly an explosion of smoke in the back of the room, which died down to reveal several chunin in gray outfits, headed by Ibiki Morino. Ibiki shouted "That's enough, you three, unless you want to be disqualified before the exams even begin!"

The sound genin's leader said dryly "I'm sorry procter-san, but it's our first time here. We apologize for getting a little roudy."

Ibiki just grunted and said "All right you maggots! Posted on the right wall is your seating arrangement. Find your seats within five minutes or have your entire team immeadiately disqualified!"

There was a sudden scramble of movement to get to the proper seat. Hinata simply activated her Byakugan and found where both she and Naruto sat. Surprisingly, luck would have them sitting together. She led Naruto to the spot and sat down next to him.

Only a few teams didn't make the time limit, and once everyone was settled down, Ibiki shouted "All right. The chunin exams have now officially begun!"

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And that's a wrap. This chapter went for longer than I had intended it to, but now we are finally at the chunin exams! I can't wait to get to the prelims and the finals. Those are going to be fun fights to write. Next chapter I will get the first exam done, and we'll see if we get any into the forest of death. I decided to pair Haku with Yugito in the end, as I think that Hyoton combined with cat flames is a very cool concept.

Anyways, until next time,

Slice N Dicer