A/N: I got my first critism! Well, there was one before but I'm not really sure if it was actual critism… It's at the end!

You are voting on whether Sasuke get's the curse mark on my profile, but it seems to be heading towards Sasuke not getting the curse mark. I don't really agree, and I had actually expected people to let him get the mark.

Guys, you need to realise that Sasuke isn't really meant to be a good person in this story. Consider it carefully, and if the poll still says don't let him get it, I won't make him get it, but I think that is a mistake.

If my story doesn't fit with the canon, it was most likely deliberate, so please don't go reviewing saying it needs to be more like it!

Chunin Exams

Day of Chunin exams

"Why?!!! Why do you have to wake up every damn morning and sing at my window?! Tell me, damn it!!!!"

Suffice to say, Naruto did NOT like early mornings. Even demons need their beauty sleep. Naruto flopped back down into his bed and snuggled into the warm covers. That lasted for about five seconds before he flung the covers off and stalked moodily into the bathroom. He was one of those guys that can't get back to sleep once woken.

Naruto looked in the mirror, eyeing his poofed up hair with an impassive gaze. He glanced at a pile of papers lying on the ground. The words writing and exam floated through his head. He shrugged and hopped into the shower.

After he got out, he looked into the mirror while drying his hair. There, he though, that looks much better. He ruffled up his hair again and walked to the kitchen, making some breakfast. He glanced at the calendar on the wall. The words special and time appeared. While drinking some milk, he looked at the clock. Time once again floated through his mind.

10 minutes later Naruto ran as fast as he could over the rooftops and skidded to a halt in front of his two teammates.

"Haha, whoops. Sorry for being a little late."

They both scowled at him. Sasuke shook his head. Yep, the strangest demon I've met and probably ever meet.

"Let's just go in already."

Sakura walked with the two, but she was worried. People die in the exams, and she knew that she wasn't a very good one, and it's survival of the fittest. She breathed I shakily. I can't quit, Sasuke will think I'm weak.

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The three looked at the gathering by a door which said 301. Two genins were talking to another three.

"You aren't ready to be in the Chunin exams, I'd be doing you a favour by keeping you out." One of the two said.

"Please, we just want to get through." A girl cried.

"Huh, really?" he said, and slapped her, making her fall to the ground.

"See, you can't even dodge that! You're too weak. Get out now before you die."

Then Sasuke walked towards them.

"Oh please, do you think we're stupid? We want the 3rd floor, this is the 2nd floor."

Naruto felt like mentally slapping him for Sasuke's ignorant stupidity. Idiot, why did he do that, we could have left the rest here and gained less opposition.

"Oh, so you figured it out?" the other boy said and above him the sign blurred and changed to 201.

Sasuke snorted.

"That illusion was weak. Sakura probably saw it right away, didn't you?" he said, turning to the surprised girl beside him. Sakura looked shocked at him.

"Oh, uh, yes, of course I saw it. It was clear that it was an illusion because we had only gone up two flights of stairs." Sakura said confidently.

Naruto twitched a smile. At least he was smart enough to give her confidence.

The boy beneath the sign smirked.

"Since you're so smart, boy, let's see how well you fight!" he said and attempted a kick. Sasuke saw this and kicked his own leg to meet it. Everyone blinked as wind was blown and suddenly a boy in green stopped both of the legs with his arms.

Fast… was pretty much what everyone thought.

Another boy with pale white/lilac eyes sighed and rubbed his temples.

"What did we say about acting weak, Lee?"

"I'm sorry Neji, but…" he stopped because he spotted Sakura. Instantly he was by her side.

"You must be Sakura! I have heard of you from Gai-sensei who heard it from Kakashi-sensei! You are beautiful!! Please, allow me to be with you and protect you forever!!!!!!!!"

Sakura twitched.

"No. Way. Wha-what are you wearing?! And that hair is weird! And those… eyebrows! They look like big fuzzy caterpillars!!!"

Lee's body drooped at the rejection. Naruto walked up to him and patted his back.

"Aw, come on, Bushy Brows. She'll warm up to you!" Sakura growled at him at the last comment.

Lee smiled at him, anime tears streaming down his cheeks.

"Oh Naruto, you are such a great friend! And I only just met you yesterday! Yosh! You have given me new hope! I will never give up on you my beautiful cherry blossom!!!!!" She shrieked in fear.

Naruto smiled evilly, then pouted as he realised the time.

"Come on, guys, we gotta go to an exam."

The two nodded and followed him to the stairs, Sakura looking fearfully at the genin staring at her with love heart eyes.

"How do you know that freak?!" Sakura almost shouted to Naruto after they were far enough away.

Naruto shrugged his shoulders.

"I met him and his team yesterday with Kakashi-sensei. And if you didn't like him, you should meet his sensei! It's like they're clones!!"

They both shuddered.

"And their Genjutsu is probably the single most horrible thing you might ever see. It was lucky sensei was there to cover my eyes else I probably would have gone into shock and become paralyzed for days!!"

Sakura gasped in horror while Sasuke rolled his eyes at the exaggeration. All three turned when they heard his name called. Standing on the ledge was none other than Lee, looking down at Sasuke determinedly.

"You are Sasuke Uchiha, yes?"

Said person smirked up at the green clad boy.

"Yes, that's me. What do you want?"

Fire sprang into his eyes.

"Fight me! I wish to prove to myself that even someone like me can beat a prodigy in battle! I have trained hard for this day, please, fight me now."

Sasuke looked surprised for a moment, than an arrogant grin appeared.

"Alright, you can be a warm-up for the exams."

Lee smiled triumphantly and jumped down to them. Naruto shook his head and lightly tapped Sasuke on the shoulder.

"That is a bad idea. You may me an Uchiha and all, but Lee had been a genin much longer than you have." At that, he glared at him.

"Hmph, I'm disappointed in you. You've underestimated me, and overestimated him. He can't be a good fighter, with all that green he's wearing."

"Oh you poor stubborn fool." He muttered under his breath, but nevertheless released him. After all, this would probably be the funniest thing he'd seen in weeks!

Sasuke was quick to charge.

Sasuke was also quick to get thrown onto the ground skidding.

Sakura and Naruto both gasped at the incredible speed the other genin had just shown. Sasuke slowly got up, rubbing his chest where he was kicked, scowling at Lee still in his stance, as if he hadn't even moved.

Sasuke charged again.

This time, he actually lasted quite a bit longer. That is, until he was kicked into the air. Lee crouched down, then disappeared and reappeared under Sasuke's flat body. The bandages around his arms unwound it's self and was about to wrap around Sasuke's body when a shurikan fro outer nowhere embedded itself into the wall, holding the bandages with it.

"Lee! What did we say about that move?!" The man who threw the shurikan shouted. (No turtle sorry!) Lee landed on his feet, and quickly bowed to the older version of him. Sasuke… fell to the ground on his butt.

"Forgive me Gai-sensei!!" Lee cried.

"I will, but you will be punished!!" Gai shouted, and promptly punched the boy in the face, making him skid to the ground.

Lee got up again, tears streaking down his face, his cheek slightly swollen.

"Gai-sensei!!!

"Lee, for trying to do that forbidden technique, you are to run 50 laps around Konoha wearing and extra 100 kg of weights after this exam."

"Yes Gai-sensei!!"

"LEE!"

GAI-SENSEI!"

"LEE!"

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"Hello Gai, fancy meeting you here today!!!" Naruto shouted, desperately trying to make them stop. Lucky for him, it worked.

"Ahh, Naruto! The youthful student of my eternal rival! I see you have kept your word and with your flames of youth, came here to face the many challenges expected to come!! I am most certain that you and your youthful teammates will do excellent in the exams!!!"

"Yes Gai I'm sure we will do just fine now we have to go bye-bye!!" he said hurriedly, dragging the other two along.

Kakashi was waiting for them by the door. He smiled at them, still holding his orange book.

"Ah, you all made it. That means you can go in."

"What do you mean by 'we all made it'?" Sakura asked.

"well, if one of you happened to not come, the others wouldn't be aloud into the exam, because you have to have a three-man-team to enter. I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to pressure Sakura into entering."

All three nodded their heads.

"Good luck!" Kakashi said cheerily and disappeared.

The team walked to the door and opened it.

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"So, how do you think your team will do?" Asuma asked. Kurenei sipped her tea. They were in the jonin lounge, and it was reasonably empty.

"My team is specialised in tracking and detecting, so I'm sure the second stage will be alright for them. There fighting is also quite good. They should do fine."

Asuma smirked.

"You're vey confident in them." He stated.

"And I have every reason to be. What about your team then?"

Asuma thought for a moment.

"They will also do fine. Their skills are good and with Shikamaru's mind the writing exam will be a piece of cake. What about you Kakashi?"

"Hmm, they should do quite well. Though Sakura has poor chakra reserves and is weak, she is smart and is good at noticing things… well, when she isn't fawning over Sasuke. I really wish she'd get out of that habit." He replied, before flipping a page of his book.

Kurenei looked at him curiously.

"What about the Naruto kid? Is he dangerous?"

Kakashi glanced at her, before looking back to his book.

"Have faith, Kurenei. I've worked with Naruto for quite some time now. If he showed any ill intent towards Konoha, I would know it. To be honest, he isn't very different from other children. He laughs, he plays, he's just like a normal child… with differences of course."

Asuma spoke up.

"I heard he could turn into a fox?"

Kakashi nodded.

"Hm, yes, he can. I was surprised too. He transformed into a large fox on the mission to Wave but it seems it takes a lot of chakra, even for him. He does change into a regular sized fox regularly."

"So he is no danger?" Kurenei asked.

"None." Kakashi replied slightly vehemently.

There was a pause of silence.

"I wonder how they are doing. Ibiki is the written exam's proctor." Asuma said.

Kurenei noticed that both men shuddered slightly.

"Why, who is he?"

"You wouldn't know him, you're new. Ibiki is the Head of Interrogation. He specialises in torture." Asuma said.

"Torture? They let him be proctor?!" she cried, horrified.

"Not physical," Kakashi said quickly. "mental. He knows the mind so well he can get even the most trained Shinobi to crack in less than an hour. Right now, he's probably carefully tricking the genin to actually give up and try for the next Chunin exams."

"Is he really that good?" she asked sceptically.

Nodding of heads was her only answer.

Done!!

Okay, I got this review on the last chapter, so I'd thought I'd show it to you and talk about it.

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StaplersBreak

Author notes are annoying in the middle of a story. How many novels have you read where the author is like 'oh by the way...blah, blah, blah'? Got something to say? Say it at the end.

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Honestly, I'm not sure what to say. I personally like it when some of the notes are in the story because sometimes I forget about it and if it's at the end, then I have to scroll up and find it to see what they were talking about, but that's just me.

And of course authors aren't gonna write things in the middle of their books? It's a freakin book! I'm writing fanfiction! Gosh, you are so uptight; does it really ruin the whole experience of reading my story when you see an author's note in the middle of the chapter? Lighten up!

Now that I got that out, please tell me if you would rather me do what the guy above wants, after all, this story is for you to enjoy, and if the majority of people would rather it that way, I will change it.

For some reason, some of the buttons on this site didn't work, like the review button and the favourite stories button on people's profiles. Was this the same for everyone? I couldn't even add my new chapter!

Review some more! Love the reviews, addicted, maybe unhealthily…