I bet you are all surprise to see this one so soon. All thanks to brown phantom for writing this chapter. If you want to read more of his work: Check out 'He Will Be Mine' or 'Ai Youkai'
And once again I do not own Naruto. If I did….I wouldn't need Lemons to make a Harem.
The day finally came, the first day of the chuunin exams. Genin from Konoha and all other corners of the map were gathering in the village to test their skills in hopes of being promoted in their line of work. Motives ranged from personal reasons to selfish reasons to even honor and not wanting to be left out, but everyone there had one objective in mind, to get as far in this exam as they could and defeat anyone and anything that stood in their way.
Team 7 made their way to the Academy, though they all came separately. Sasuke coming on his own was natural and didn't even have to be mentioned before or after, but Naruto and Sakura felt they had to arrive separately. As much as Sakura wanted to be in public with Naruto fearlessly, it would have been too suspicious had they shown up walking side by side, especially since in the public eye Naruto and Hinata were dating. "Ready?" Naruto asked when they got together outside the school building. Sakura nodded with a smile and Sasuke just shrugged indifferently, and the trio went in.
"Remember the room we're supposed to go to?" Sakura asked.
"Yeah, 301." Sasuke muttered.
It didn't take them long to find a large crowd insisting on being allowed to enter such a room, unable to proceed because of two slightly older kids telling them that they should leave for their own good.
"Something about this doesn't seem right." Sakura whispered to her teammates, but mostly Naruto. "Wouldn't there be someone coming by and stopping this blockage?"
Sasuke nodded once without looking at the pinkette. "That and we're only on the second floor. Pretty pathetic how these guys think they're good enough for chuunin but fall for such a simple trick." He then started to walk forward to the group, but Naruto grabbed his wrist.
"Don't." Naruto advised, confusing Sasuke. "Maybe this is a trap designed to weed out the weakest participants. Calling it out will only give us more competition later"
They walked away, heading for the real room 301, but before they even got to the stairs, they encountered another obstacle.
"Excuse me, but I am Rock Lee, and I wish to spar with Sasuke Uchiha." A boy with shiny black hair, thick eyebrows, and a green jumpsuit with orange leg warmers said to get their attention.
Sasuke looked annoyed. "And why the heck should I give you that privilege?"
"Because I want to prove that hard work can surpass natural talent." Lee insisted.
The Uchiha grit his teeth slightly. ' "Fine, I could use a warm-up anyway."
"Alright, to the nearest empty area then." Lee said before leading the team away.
Sakura leaned close to Naruto. "Naruto, why didn't you tell him not to fight this time?"
Naruto shrugged. "Sasuke shouldn't need to be warned two times within two minutes. If he wants to fight, that's on him, not us."
Lee stopped in a part of the hall big enough to be considered a room of its own. He and Sasuke stared down, and as if by silent agreement began to fight, starting with taijutsu. Lee was using a form Sasuke was unfamiliar with, so he activated his sharingan to intercept it better. But to his shock it wasn't doing him any good, Lee was too fast for him to effectively counter.
"Sasuke's losing?" Sakua asked in disbelief. She may not have been in love with the guy anymore, but that didn't mean she thought he was feeble now.
Lee stopped for a moment. "You see Sasuke, while talent is a boon, it can only do so much on its own. Just like your eyes, your sharingan may be powerful enough to analyze my every move, but that does you no good if your body isn't quick enough to react against mine."
The fight continued on with Sasuke not being able to land any hits on the boy impressive speed. Just when it looked Lee was about to land the final blow on Sasuke, a giant talking tortoise showed up and chastised Lee for fighting before the exam. Then Lee's sensei, a man named Might Guy who looked so much like Lee one could swear the two were related, showed up as well and... let's just say the result practically scarred Team 7 for life.
After the horror that is the Sunset Genjutsu faded, Team 7 decided to make it to Room 301 with no more distractions.
"Did you learn anything from that fight?" Naruto asked Sasuke.
Sasuke huffed. "Other than how not to grow my eyebrows, I was able to copy some moves. I just couldn't get my reaction time to work with them."
"Even prodigies need to practice Sasuke." Sakura advised.
"Indeed. The exam hasn't even started yet and we already found something for you to improve on." Naruto added.
"I just wished I learn it from someone who didn't have such huge eyebrows that are now burned into my head thanks to my eyes." Sasuke replied.
Room 301 came in sight, as did Kakashi. "Good, you all came together. Had you not, I would have been forced to withdraw you from the exams." He said, pleased at not having to do such a thing.
"Guess all your preaching about teamwork is working." Naruto commented to his sensei.
"Good luck you guys." Kakashi said before letting them enter.
Inside the room there were hundreds of genin from all corners of the map, none of them recognizable to any of Team 7 save for one, Team 8.
"Almost thought you guys chickened out." Kiba teased, coming up to them.
"In your dreams." Naruto replied in good nature.
"Hi everyone." Hinata casually said, not wanting to do something that would make her stand out or look suspicious. Though truth be told she really wanted to just hug and kiss Naruto now.
All of a sudden Sakura got glomped from behind. "Gotcha!"
"Ino?" The pinkette asked, recognizing the voice.
The platinum blonde released her regained best friend, and saw mostly everyone was looking at her surprised that she did such a thing to Sakura rather than Sasuke. "Well you obviously need to pay more attention Forehead. Had I been an actual threat you would be dead by now."
'Good cover.' Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura thought. 'Though we can't say the same for your clothes.'
While Ino couldn't exactly go around in broad daylight bare-ass naked, what she wore was pretty close to it. Her ensemble was colored her normal purple, but the top was somewhere between skin-tight tank top and sports bra, and the bottom was basically skin-tight shorts that just barely stretched down two centimeters below her hips and butt. She had no cloth guards on her arms anymore, and only some bandages on her right thigh just to keep her holster from being directly against her skin.
"Damn Ino, did you forget to bring your modesty with you?" Kiba said, too surprised by the shock to think of hitting on her. Not right away at least.
"Ninja must use every advantage they have. My body is a nice advantage to have." Ino reply while rubbing her hands over her body. "So easy to distract people like you so I can do THIS." She finish as she pulled a Kunai right between Kiba eyes causing him to gulp and back up slowly.
"Fair point" He admitted
"You guys must all be first timers here. Boy, I remember how scared I was my first time taking these. Oh, I'm Kabuto Yakushi by the way." Said a man with pale hair in a ponytail and purple clothes, someone that none of them recognized despite his Konoha hitai-ate.
"Hello. How many times have you taken these exams?" Sakura politely greeted back.
"This is my seventh time."
Everyone was surprised to various degrees. "Wow, you must suck." Kiba remarked.
"Maybe, but these tests are incredibly hard. There's never been one without at least two teams dying, and I only say two because it's impossible to say for sure what the actual rate is. For all I know at least a third of the people here are going to die." Kabuto replied, seeing some of the rookies were getting nervous. "But luckily my experience has given me some advantages. I've got information on many ninja thanks to these exams, and I'm willing to share some of it with you if you'd like."
Sasuke stepped forward. "If that's true, then tell me what you know about Rock Lee of Konoha."
Kabuto shifted through his cards and pulled one out, with Lee's picture and info appearing. "He graduated last year with the lowest grades in ninjutsu and genjutsu, marked at absolute zero even in terms of dispelling. But he's got the highest marks even seen in taijutsu so the grades even out. He's on a team with Might Guy and two teammates, one of which is the Rookie of the Year for his class, and this is his first time taking these exams, but so far that seems to be it."
'So he's terrible at ninjutsu and genjutsu, I'll keep that in mind for the next time.' Sasuke thought.
Sakura lightly frowned. "Umm... Kabuto-san, you said you got this information while taking these exams yourself right?"
"Yes. Why?"
"Then how could you have information on someone who's never been in an exam before?" Sakura asked.
The other genin saw her reasoning and looked at Kabuto like he was a very suspicious character. "She's right. How did you get that information?" Naruto pressed.
'Damn, now there's no way I can make myself look like a valuable asset to any of them in the rest of the test.' Kabuto rued, knowing now getting Sasuke in the right place at the right time just got harder.
"Alright everyone, sit down and shut up before I make it impossible for you to do either!" A booming voice threatened from the front of the room.
Everyone was forced to ignore Kabuto, much to his pleasure, and take their seats which they had been assigned to rather than chose to take. Members of each team were scattered in a clear attempt to hinder any attempt at direct interaction. To Naruto's pleasure, Hinata was seated right next to him.
"Good luck Naruto-kun." She whispered with a wily grin on her face. "If you do well I'll be sure to reward you later."
Naruto returned the grin. "Likewise."
"Welcome to the first part of the Chuunin Exams. I'm Ibiki Morino, and for the next hour each and every one of you is my bitch." The scarred proctor introduced. "Pay attention because I'm only saying this once. This is going to be a written test." He got a few groans from genin expecting action. "What, did you think we were going to have a battle royale in this room? No, this is just the start. All you battle-hungry punks will just have to wait. If you've got what it takes to get through this of course."
"The test will consist of ten questions, nine of which are already written down." Ibiki continued as several chuunin became passing out the tests. "The tenth one will come at the end for those able to get that far. And unlike most tests where you get points for correct answers, here you all start with a perfect score and we deduct points for each wrong answer."
Confusion set in around the room. Naruto raised an eyebrow. 'Okay, just doing a written test the normal way was hard enough for me, but now he's basically rewriting the rules. I'm going to have a hard time here.'
"Now, here are the rules for this test." Ibiki added. "First, don't let us catch you cheating. There will be chuunin assisting me here in this watching you all, and if any of them catch you cheating they will mark you down two points. So if you're caught cheating five times, you're down to zero points and therefore fail this test. Second, if anyone here does fail, their team fails with them, regardless of their own scores."
That got several genin tense, and Sasuke gave Naruto a particularly dark look that the blonde couldn't see.
"And finally, when I say pencils down, they go down or you do instead. You may begin... now!" Ibiki finished.
Naruto got right to it, but unfortunately he could barely figure out what the questions meant, let alone answer any of them. Even double-checking them did him no good. 'This is bad; I can't come up with anything. What am I going to do if I can't answer anything?'
His musings were cut short by something he never would have expected to happen here and now of all places. His pants were getting looser, as if someone was unzipping them. He had to stop himself from saying something and drawing attention to him.
Being as discreet as possible, Naruto looked down and saw Hinata's left hand was at his now unzipped pants and reaching for under his boxers. All the while she herself was working on her test, looking as normal as possible.
'What is she doing? Now's not the time for this.' Naruto thought, about to remove her hand when he noticed something. 'Wait, her byakugan's on. Hinata-chan's cheating? Does that mean she's trying to tell me something without being caught?'
Waiting to see if this guess was true, Naruto let her continue her work while trying to look like nothing was out of the ordinary. Paying more attention to her, he felt her hand caress his manhood in a caring way, but also in a specific way. She was moving his shaft around in a pattern, as if it were a joystick.
'Wait, I get it, she's spelling out the answers for me this way.' Naruto thought, recognizing the pattern. He got right to work on writing out the answers, trying his hardest to avoid giving in to the sensations, let he make a huge spectacle of himself in front of everyone.
Meanwhile, among the many cheaters in the room, Sakura seemed to be the one person who was able to figure out the answers without such methods. 'If only I could help Naruto-kun get the answers, he's struggling so much he's gotten tense just from trying.'
She could see Naruto being rigid from her position but she couldn't see that it was Hinata making him be that way.
Ino looked at Sakura. 'She's got the answers. Maybe she'll share if I ask nice.' With that she readied her Mind Transfer Jutsu and went inside her pink-haired friend, positioning her own body to try and look natural while she was out of it.
Inside Sakura's body, Ino looked over her test and began memorizing the answers right away. Satisfied, Ino left and went back to her body to write them down on her own test before she forgot. 'When this is over, I'll thank you properly.' Ino thought to Sakura with a lecherous purr in her mind, before she acted to share her answers with Chouji and Shikamaru.
Time went by and several genin were eliminated from the test, but luckily Naruto and his friends and lovers were not any of them. But Naruto was facing a different problem; he wasn't going to be able to withhold his release much longer, since Hinata was still giving him a helping hand.
Sensing his problem, Hinata 'accidentally' dropped her pencil. "Oops." She quietly said, and then went down to retrieve it. But of course it wasn't going to be that simple. The Hyuuga heiress moved to in front of her whiskered love and knelt in front of him under the desk. Her hand was off him now, but right then she replaced it with her mouth, coaxing him to embrace what he had been trying to withhold for the better part of the past hour.
Unable, and to be frank unwilling, to continue restraining himself, Naruto blew his load. How he did that in a room full of people without making a single one of them look his way, how he stayed silent and didn't all but roar out his satisfaction, well, that was something we're all probably better off not knowing. Let's just be glad and amazed he did.
Moving as quickly as she did to get down, Hinata grabbed her pencil and got back in her seat, making it look as if she just had to reach somewhere she couldn't get to within her chair, and acted as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
Naruto on the other hand had to focus more on controlling his breathing, getting it back to normal, lest he pant heavily as if he just had one heck of a work-out without moving a muscle besides his arms.
"Alright, pencils down." Ibiki called, just in time for Naruto to regain his composure. "Time for the tenth question. But first, this question is special and has its own set of rules."
"Seriously?" A random genin asked.
"Indeed. Now, the first thing to note is that this question is worth 10 points. Meaning if you get this wrong, you fail the entire test. You and your entire team. Not only that, but if you fail this, then you are banned from taking these tests again in the future, and you and your team will be genins permanently."
"What?" Several genin asked in horror.
"You can't do that. What about the guys who took this test before?" Kiba objected.
"They were lucky, because I wasn't in charge of those tests. But right here, right now, I'm large and in charge. If I want to, I can make you all chuunin right now and be done with it. Or I can kill you all and get away with it. Get the picture? My word is law here, and I don't have to justify a single thing I do to any of you." Ibiki warned, making many genin nervous.
"But luckily for you I prefer having fun, so here's a little twist to make things more interesting. I'm going to give you a chance to avoid that fate, by refusing to take the question in the first place. If anyone of you believes you can't get it correct, you can bow out now and leave, and you and your team will be allowed to take these exams later. Maybe you'll get lucky and some soft-hearted simpleton will be in charge next time. Refuse, and stay here in hopes of continuing these exams, while risking your entire future. Here, now, it's literally all or nothing. So who wants to leave?"
The tension in the room was so thick that one could cut it with a kunai. Several genin chose to leave, and their teams left with them. For a moment it looked like Naruto was going to raise his hand and quit the test too.
'Naruto-kun?' Hinata, Sakura, and Ino all thought with worry, wondering if maybe this had been too much for him.
But instead of resign, Naruto slammed his hand down on his desk. "Fat chance! Give up now and become a chuunin later? What kind of ninja would I be if I ditched a challenge just because the enemy threatened me? If this was a mission you'd be like an enemy nin telling me to run or die trying to beat you, and if I left just because of a threat then I'd deserve to be a genin for the rest of my life. But I'm not going to stay a genin, and I'm not about to let you stop me from becoming Hokage."
To Ibiki's surprise, though he didn't show it, the resolve of the remaining doubtful returned to them, as if Naruto had recharged their sense of purpose and determination. "Oh, you think you can stand up to me like that punk?" Naruto didn't answer, but his eyes did his talking for him, making Ibiki lightly smirk. "Then in that case I guess I have no choice. You all... pass."
The tension in the room dissipated immediately, only to be replaced with an equally incredible sense of shock. Ibiki mentally laughed at their confusion.
"But what about the tenth question?" Kankuro asked.
"The tenth question was merely about whether or not you were willing to take it. This test you see was like a field simulation where you had to gather information without being caught by enemy forces. This of course meant you had to pass this test by cheating without being caught. Those that were caught to many times were sloppy ninja and therefore potential risks on the field."
"Of course there's more to this test than that. Gathering information does you no good if you don't know what to do with it." Ibiki continued, and then removed his bandanna to show his scarred scalp. "Information is vital to our line of work, capable of making or breaking a village and the people within it. Acquiring it takes a lot of skill, and we need the right ninja for it. The kind that not only can get it, but use it properly. Hence why this test was a team test. If your team failed, then obviously you were not trying to help your teammates pass this test. And anyone who can sit back and let their teammate fail is likely to betray the mission or village later on as well."
"As for the tenth question, that was to test your conviction in the face of uncertainty. Like blondie here said, sometimes you need to be willing to risk failure. We don't need chuunin who panic as soon as things get tough any more than we need chuunin who act sloppy. By being here now, you've all shown you can handle that part if nothing else, and now-"
He was cut off by a window breaking and a banner unfurling above him. One that read 'The Wonderful and Forever Sexy Anko'. The woman it flattered dropped down next to the scarred proctor.
"Wow, there's got to be at least forty teams still here. You must have gone too easy on them Ibiki." Anko teased.
"Or maybe we've just got a strong batch this year." He countered.
"The stronger they are, the sweeter their fail will be." Anko replied, and then cleared her throat to address the room. "Already maggots, time for the part you've all been waiting for. The part of the test where you get down and dirty and bloody. Be it your own blood or someone else's. And we've got just the right place for it to happen it, a little place we here in Konoha like to call the Forest of Death."
Tension return to the room but for Naruto, Hinata, Sakura, and Ino one thing was on their collective minds.
'We have got to get her.'
Soo….any guesses on who is next? Tune in next chapter for the answer.
If you want to pass the time...check out my one-shot "My Dream" or take a crack at my challenge fic "SSS-Rank Mission"
Till then, Bless be to the Lemons.