Chapter 11: The Chuunin Shiken

It had been two days ago that the Konoha ninja were warned about the incoming Chuunin Shiken, a three phase exam designed to test the Genin's might and see which deserved to become Chuunin, higher ranked ninja that were given command of teams.

The Chuunin Shiken was made up of three phases. A written test, designed to test the minds of the students and evalutate what they had learned so far. A survival and information hunt that would last five days, designed to test the Genin's ability to complete missions, and the third phase was a series of one-on-one matches involving the surviving or successful teams, designed to test the ninja's combat abilities.

When Kurenai told the team that she had signed them up for it, the reactions could not have been more varied. Hono exploded with happiness and excitement at the opportunity of killing more people. Shino simply accepted it, displaying no emotion and Hinata immediately sunk into her own lack of confidence and self-esteem.

Since Hinata had these kinds of problems, Kurenai asked Shino and Hono to train alone or to seek a mentor for a while so she could focus on the Hyuuga kunoichi. Shino merely turned around and walked home to ask his father for training. Hono also turned around and walked away to bum around the village. He wasn't worried about power, he could beat any Genin in the world with his feet tied around his back.

As he intentionally got lost in the village, he heard a beautiful sound. The sound of a child crying for help. Wait, who is making a kid cry for help in my village? He quickly ran over to the sound's origin to see a tall guy dressed in a black full body suit, black hood with cat ears and black sandlas with a big bandage cacoon on his back, being carried like a backpack standing over a small boy that couldn't be older than eight years old. The child was crying and looking at the guy in fear as he clenched his fist. It wasn't hard to understand the situation. Hono whistled, getting the guy to turn around. As he turned around, Hono closed in and blasted him with his sealed gloves, sending him flying against a tree. With a front view, Hono saw a Sunagakure forehead protector engraved on the front of the hood. The ninja wore purple war paint on his face and a two coloured circle on the front of the suit. The kid quickly ran away.

"I warned you Kankuro. Beating up kids isn't the best course of action when you are visiting a village."- Hono turned around to see a tall girl standing with a disappointed look on her face. Her blond hair was tied into four ponytails and she had green eyes. She wore a very light purple dress that went down to her thighs and was made of fishnet on the shoulders. She wore her Sunagakure forehead protector as a collar and she carried a huge fan on her back.

"I didn't know that Sunagakure had such beautiful kunoichis. What's your name?"- Hono smiled to her. She blushed.

"Temari. Yours?"- she asked. He's hot, and he seems pretty cool. She thought to herself.

"Beautiful name. Mine's Hono. It means blaze."- he replied.

"YOU BASTARD! I'LL KILL YOU!"- Kankuro shouted, getting ready to fight.

"Kankuro, that's enough. You've disgraced Sunagakure already and we just got here."- Hono turned his head to look at a small red-haired boy. He had spiky red hair and green eyes that didn't have pupils. He had black rings around his eyes that could be mistook for make up, but were obviously from imsonia. He wore a black full body suit that had t-shirt like sleeves and an open collar. It covered three fourths of his legs. He also wore a white cloth over his right shoulder and the left side of his hips and a wide leather band system over the left shoulder and right side of his hips. With this leather band, he carried a huge beige gourd and his forehead protector. Perhaps the most noticeable thing about him was the red kanji on the left part of his forehead that spells "love" implying that he only loves himself.

"..."- for a moment, there was silence. No one made a sound, waiting for the other's actions. After that moment, Hono walked up to the boy and did something that made the other two envious. He hugged Gaara. All three were shocked. After a moment, Hono broke the hug.

"W-why?"- the red haired boy asked.

"Because we've been through the same. We're brothers."- Hono replied.

"Temari, what's going on?"- Kankuro asked his blond sister.

"I heard that there was someone like Gaara in Konoha. Gaara has the one-tail and Konoha has the host of the nine-tails."- she answered.

"Can you prove that you're like Gaara?"- Kankuro shouted.- "Because I bet you can't!"

"..."- Hono turned around and forced a bit of the Kyuubi's chakra, making a black seal appear over his stomach.- "Let me guess, no one ever accepted Gaara. No one ever liked him and the children were told to pretend he doesn't exist. He was and is hated for something that he has no control over, and he's been alone ever since he was born. I suffered the exact same thing, except I didn't have his sand to protect me from the villagers..."

"..."- Gaara showed his stomach, a red seal appearing.- "I can't even sleep..."

"I can help you. Meet me on top of the Hokage building tonight."- Gaara let one tear fall before nodding with his head.

Hours later, all four of them were gathered at their rendesvouz point. It was a pretty night. There was a full moon that let them see without having to cast jutsu.

Gaara was standing near Hono while he drew symbols on the ground with black ink, preparing the Seal he was about to use.

"No one ever liked me, even though I didn't know why. They kept saying I killed their sons, daughters and parents even though I have no memory of that."- The red hair confessed.

"Same happened to me. I can't tell you the time I've been beaten up for things that I didn't do."- he finished drawing the symbols and asked Gaara to kneel in the center while Temari and Kankuro approached.- "Basically, you can't sleep and keep hearing voices because your seal is crap and doesn't hold the monster inside. I'm about to reinforce it and neutralize its setbacks."

"Are you sure this will work?"- Temari asked, worried.

"Don't worry, if there is something I know about, it's seals."- And with that, he put his palms on the floor, sending chakra and making the symbols go into Gaara's stomach, making him shout before dropping to the ground, asleep. Temari and Kankuro were too shocked to say a thing, but the first one hurried over and hugged Hono.

"Thank you so fucking much!"- he said, tears falling down his face before he broke the hug and grabbed Gaara by the right side.

"No probl-"- Hono started but couldn't finish saying it as his lips were held in a deep kiss. Temari's lips were soft and tasted like cherry, his rough but nice. After a minute, she let go.

"I love you so much!"- she said before going to aid Kankuro in taking Gaara to bed for the first time in his life.

"...well, that was unexpected..."- Hono muttered, dumbfounded.