She stares up at the tree a branch just a bit away from Sasuke then looks back at Naruto, he is with Konohamaru, Kagome smiles softly.

"Boss.. He is so much cooler then you" he sniffs and Naruto growls a bit. The man makes a tsk sound, the blond girl next to him blushes a small bit and thinks how there maybe a few hunks here. The man takes the package off of his back, her eyes widen

"You're not planning on using the crow?!" she yells Just after she yelled then a voice came from the tree next to Sauske.

"Kankuro, you are a disgrace to our village" then man in makeup now known Kankuro,

"G-Gaara" they both stutter out looking up at him.

'When did he get there?' Sasukes eyes narrow at him. The red-haired boy was wrapped in sand and appeared next to Kankuro and Temari. He lowered his head a bit to them and apologized for how they behaved, Sasuke jumped down from his perch almost landing on Kagome.

"Hey! Watch it." Kagomes with a huff and a few grumbles, Naruto blinked and looked around for the owner of the soft voice to see Kagomes ghostly form standing between him and Sasuke, his eyes widen and Kagome gives him a fanged smirk her tail slowly moving to and fro softly yet barley touching the ground.

"Hey.. Why are you here!" Sakura yelled at them. They stop and Temari blinks at her and give her a duh look.

"For the Chunin Exams. Duh" she poses with a hand on her hip. Naruto gives them a look that said 'What the hell is that?' Sakura sighs at him and expands it out for him then looks to see that they are leaving.

"What" Sasuke says " who are you?" the girl turns and with blush pointing to herself

"Who,.. Me?" Sasuke shakes his head.

"No, the one with the gourd on his back…"

"… Gaara of the desert. You.."

"Sasuke U."

"Hey! What about me!?" Naruto jumps pointing to himself, Kagome shakes her head at him with a small chuckle. Gaara and his team just turn and walk away.

"It's ok Naruto-kun" Kagome coos and walks over to him rubbing her furry cheek into the top of his head making his hair move about. He huffs and his team mates look at him weirdly.

"What?!" he snaps at them. They both sorta blink at him, never hearing that tone from him before, Naruto huffs and stomps away from them.


The next day at the training grounds


"wait, so where are going to the chunin exams?!" Naruto yells with a shit eating grin on his face. Sakura covers her mouth with a hand and Sasuke narrows his eyes at Kakashi Just smiles his upside down U smile at them. Kagome, whom was siting on the railing of the bridge smiled at Naruto and giggled, He huffed a small huff at her from the corner of his eyes, he looks back at his teacher.

"So?! So?!" Naruto yells

"yes Naruto" he yells and jumps high in the air yelling yes over and over again.

"But-But- Kakashi-sensei!' Sakura butted in' are we really ready?"

"That's for you to find out, Good luck" he disappears with a poof of smoke.

"S-sasuke want to train with me?" she pleads

"no" he glares at her