Still don't own Naruto

Chapter 34: Chunin Exams Again

Naruto awoke first, on his chest Yugito lay. She had wrapped her leg around his in her sleep and she was so intent on keeping him where he was she had her arm flung around his neck holding him in position, this was a normal occurrence and happened almost every night. As it turns out Yugito clings onto the warmest thing she can find when she sleeps and that is almost always Naruto.

"Good morning beautiful are you feeling better now?" he asked with a smile when he saw her eyes flutter open and let out a cute yawn.

"I'm fine" she said before closing her grip on Naruto even more and letting out a contented purr. "I love waking up like this" she said before giving Naruto a small kiss on his chest.

"Where going to stay like this until you say so aren't we" Naruto asked politely.

"Yes" was her reply as she continued to purr and Naruto could feel the rhythm of it beating out like fast pulses in his chest.

"I love the way you purr like that Yugi-chan its so damn sexy" Naruto said stroking her hair.

She didn't answer him she just planted several more kisses on his chest.

"So do you want to talk about what happened in the forest yesterday" Naruto asked tentatively knowing it was likely to be a sore topic.

"I'm sorry Naru-kun I know she was just teasing us but when she jumped on your back and was asking you to do things I kinda lost it. I need to find Anko-chan and apologies, she was a really good friend to me while you were gone and she even chased off several lechers that were pestering me" Yugito said sorrowfully.

"Hey its fine its 'the crazy snake lady' she will just laugh it off you have nothing to worry about, now what do you say we make some breakfast and you can help me with some Suiton Jutsu" Naruto said kindly.

"Five more minutes" she complained and placed her head further into he chest.

"You know if you keep going you are going to be on top of me" Naruto joked.

"Hm that's not a bad idea" she said sliding her leg over his waist and moving over until she was laying on top of the spiky haired blond.

After that they had started making out again but just before they could enjoy each others company any more, there was a knock at the door.

"Son of a Bitch this better be good" Naruto said rolling Yugito over before pulling on some boxers and a tight shirt that hadn't been torn by Yugito... …. Yet.

Naruto walked to the door thoroughly annoyed that someone had disturbed his good time. Opening the door he saw a surprisingly modest looking Anko who had turned a light shade of red when she saw what the blond was wearing, or rather what he wasn't wearing.

"Anko why are you here" Naruto asked cautiously but friendly none the less.

"Um I'm sorry Naruto, I came to apologies to Yugito-chan... can I come in" she asked making a conscious effort not to look down and check him out any more than she already had.

"Yeah sure Yugi-chan is still in bed I will go get her" Naruto said and opened the door for Anko to enter before returning to the bedroom to rouse his 'sleeping' girlfriend.

This proved harder than first anticipated as she quickly tried to return to what they were about to do before he answered the door, a prospect which at that point in time Naruto was having a hard time trying to remember why that was a bad idea.

"Wait, Wait Yugi-chan. As much as I want to continue and trust me I do, we cant, Anko is in the lounge room and wants to talk to you.

Several expressions passed over Yugito's face rather quickly. Annoyance was first she didn't want to stop what they were doing. Fear came next at thought that Anko was angry. Finally she settled on Acceptance knowing she had to talk to the snake mistresses at some pont so she may as well get it out of the way.

Pulling on a clean panties and one of Naruto's larger shirts she made her way out to see Anko sitting on a couch waiting for her.

Anko smirked when she saw the small limp that Yugito had 'she must have had a good night' before standing up.

"Anko... I"

Yugito was cut off by Anko before she could finish "I'm Sorry Yugito-chan I didn't mean to tease you that much I went over board and I was out of like, please forgive me"

Yugito was stunned she was going to apologies for scaring her and using Nibi's chakra but she was beaten to it by Anko.

"I'm Sorry too Anko-chan I over reacted I knew you were just joking around but couldn't take it I was threatened by you" Yugito paused for couple of seconds before continuing. "Friends?"

"Definitely" Anko replied and gave her friend a hug "So how was your night, by the looks of things amazing, you know I could test him out and find out just how he compares with others" Anko asked jokingly

Yugito only cave a small primal hiss before the pair broke the hug and burst out laughing.

"So have you kissed and made up yet" Naruto asked.

Anko and Yugito only gave a nod in response.

"Well if that's the case, and seeing that we have already planned the exam task I need to go train, I have to fight Gai and Kakashi in a little over a month and I will need Suiton Techniques to keep up with everything Kakashi can throw at me he just knows so many damn jutsu" Naruto said.

"Alright I will meet you at the training ground to help you once I get properly dressed seeing as you are already" Yugito said before mumbling something inaudible about him escaping.

(Exam Day)

Konohamaru, Udon and Moegi had Just arrived at the academy for the fist test. They still had close the half and hour before the exams started but both Naruto and Ebisu had suggested arriving early to scout the competition.

"Good you all showed up, you can only take the exam in three person teams so if one of you didn't show up I couldn't have let you in" Ebisu said having seen his students arrive.

"Hey but Nii-san told us he took the exams by himself, why did he get to take them alone" Konohamaru asked.

"That was because of Jiraiya-sama, Naruto as an apprentice of a sannin is given special consideration and the fact is he had no team to enter with" Ebisu informed his pupils

The genin gave a nod of understanding before Ebisu continued "Now there are three teams that I would best avoid as long as you can, the team from the sand with Matsuri the Kazekage's apprentice and hand picked students by his siblings. The other is a Team from Iwa, we don't have much information on them other than that they have successfully completed 5 B ranked missions, so they are clearly not genin level" Ebisu said.

"So stay away from one of the teams from Iwa and Matsuri's team got it" Konohamaru said, but inside he wasn't really paying attention because of excitement.

Entering the room they looked around for familiar faces but found none. "Huh I guess we are the only rookie team this time around" Udon said becoming slightly intimidated by the other genin some were far older than they were.

"That's fine we can just rub it in our classmates faces when we become chunin" Konohamaru said, successfully calming Udon's nerves as they moved into the room.

(With Naruto and Anko)

"Do we really have to do this" Naruto asked as he saw Anko preparing a banner.

"Yes, we have to make an impression and scare the kiddies" Anko replied

"Yeah right, you just do it to annoy Ibiki" Naruto said as she was putting the finishing touches on her masterpiece before taking a few steps back to admire her work.

(Back with Konohamaru)

Ibiki had just told them the rules of his test and once Konohamaru saw the questions he freaked. He began looking around the room desperately, until he saw a hyuga from the branch house activate her byakugan, and several other obvious yet subtle ways of cheating. 'hey is I can recognize that they are cheating then why cant scarface up the front or any of the other chunin in the room... unless that's the point of the test' Konohamaru thought but was then stumped as to how he could pull it off.

Konohamaru waited until the person in front of him looked to have finished his test before 'accidentally' dropping a couple of smoke pellets. When they erupted smoke billowed into the room removing all visibility, Konohamaru used this time to switch test's with the person in front of him before quickly erasing the name and writing in his own.

When the smoke cleared Ibiki gave a bit of a show of what he would do if he saw anyone do that, then sat back down with a small smirk at how terrified most of the genin were of the large bandanna wearing man.

When the test finally came to the final question Konohamaru sat and waited, there was the usual outbursts of most of the genin, but when the young Sarutobi saw his teammates were not worried he figured there was some trick behind it.

"So no one else wants to leave then... Very well you... Pass!".

CRASH! two blurs one black the other yellow and red came in through the window and a banner unfolded behind them that said "The Single and Very Sexy Anko Mitarashi... And The Sexy But Taken Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze Proctors for the second exam".

"You two are early, Anko I would expect this from but did you have to play along Naruto-san" Ibiki said.

"See I told you we were early Anko, sorry about that Ibiki-san you know how she gets and I would rather not have to deal with her snakes" Naruto said.

"Hey Nii-san! Why didn't you tell us you were a proctor" Konohamaru yelled out, he was the first person to get over the arrival of the strange pair.

"Because Konohamaru if I told you, you would have asked me what's in the exam" Naruto explained.

"Anko if you will do the honors" Naruto said with a grin.

"With Pleasure Naruto-kun... …. Alright Maggots Training ground 44 in twenty Minutes, if your late you will be disqualified" she yelled before jumping out the window she came in.

Naruto stood there for a moment before turning to Ibiki "Does she ever collect her banners" he asked curious as to if she ever came back to clean up her mess.

"No. We even had to hire a permanent disposal crew to follow her around for the first few year's she worked in the T and I department. Every time she went in to interrogate a prisoner she would have a new banner, we asked the art's supply store in town to stop selling to her, but they refused because they were making too much money" once Ibiki had finished he banged his head lightly on the table at the memory's of the antics of his protege before leaving.

Naruto turned to the still stunned genin and gave a confused look "Uh don't want to pressure you or anything but there is only 18 minutes left to get to training ground 44 and we are serious if your late, you fail" and with that Naruto jumped out the same window and headed for the forest of death.

The genin seemed to be knocked out of there stupor at that and began flooding out of the room narrowly avoiding the large banner that still waved about at the front.

(18 Minutes Later Training ground 44)

Naruto and Anko were waiting on a large rock in front of the genin gazing intently at there watch's.

"And that's time" Naruto said before Anko took over "Alright maggots welcome to training ground 44 better known as the forest of death"

She paused for a moment enjoying the looks on the faces on the genin before continuing "The second exam is a survival test, you will be pitted against each other inside the forest in an anything goes exercise for a maximum of five days. This is why you will need to sign these waver forms that excuse Konoha from all responsibly in the highly likely event of your deaths" Anko said with a small laugh at the end to make her sound even more sadistic.

"Now the object of this task is to make it to the building in the center of the forest, but first you need to collect three of these bells" Naruto said producing a bell and holding it up for the teams to see. "Each team will be given 1 bell and as such will have the 5 days to take at least two other bells from teams by what ever mean's necessary, killing is allowed from this point on. Once you have your bells you can stay and collect more to lessen the competition or head to the finish point. Now if you and your team's will head over to Anko she will hand you your teams bell and consent forms" Naruto said pleased that his job had been successfully finished and he could now relax.

"You forgot to tell them about the trap's placed in the forest and the animals" Anko said loudly enough for the genin to hear she didn't ellaborate on it further and Naruto who was currently sun baking seemed uninterested.

(In the Forest with the Konohamaru Korps)

"So what do you think guys do we Head for the center and pick off the teams that arrive tired or go hunt them" Konohamaru said in his best form of plan making.

"I say we set up a small base about halfway to the tower and then booby trap the area Naruto sensei's trap making skills he taught me are amazing I could set up some traps now that even I would get caught in they are so complex" Udon said.

"Good Plan but I say we combine both, we set up a base camp and rest for the day then hunt down the other teams at night" Moegi suggested.

"Wow that's brilliant Moegi chan, get the other teams while there tired and sleeping with less guards" Konohamaru said.

"Then it's decided we will move along till we find an easily defensible position then make camp" Udon said decisively.

Several hours later they found a large hollowed out tree at the edge of a clearing and set up a camp Udon went and began to lay his trap's and seals while Konohamaru and Moegi made a small fire and caught some of the less sizable local wildlife.

Once night came on the second day the group who were rested and feeling relaxed made there way through a small gap Udon had made in his traps and left the clearing.

A short while later they came across a team of Grass ninja sitting on a tree branch relaxing, deciding to take advantage of the less than aware ninja the Konohamaru Korps set up a loose perimeter by surrounding them and slowly approaching them from all angles.

Suddenly one of the Kusa ninja saw Konohamaru and warned the others causing them to split up, it was most unfortunate that they each ran into a separate leaf ninja.

Konohamaru came face to face with the tallest of the group, a boy with shoulder length black hair pulled back in a bun. The tall Kusa genin charged at Konohamaru but thanks to Naruto's training easily avoided it, Konohamaru created two shadow cloned and began delivering a beating onto the tallest of the genin.

Udon faced what was most likely a kindred spirit, big glasses and a runny nose, the main difference between the two was there hetai-ite as one had a grass symbol while the other had leaf, wasting no time Udon quickly sent four kunai in a square pattern around the genin who looked confused at Udon's horrible aim. That confusion turned to shock as he realized he could no longer move no matter how hard he tried.

Moegi also made short work of her opponent, casting a shifted perception genjutsu like the one she used on Ebisu she was easily able to slip through the grass genin's defenses before tying her up in nija wire.

The three met back up after dealing with there targets. "Good work guys now lets search them for the bells" Konohamaru said and began his search.

In the end it turned out that they only had one bell and it was on Moegi's opponent. "i guess they figured that less people would be willing to search a girl" Moegi said throwing the bell to Udon who sealed it into a scroll where the other was safely located.

After that they decided to make there way back to camp and would strike again in a few days because as teams were loosing there bells they would get more and more tired from fighting.

On the way back however they ran into a problem, in a small clearing they jumped into Udon had to grab his teammates to stop them from kicking off.

"Hey Udon what gives" Konohamaru asked.

"Look we are traped" Udon said and pointed to seals scattered all over the surrounding trees.

"What do we do then" Konohamaru asked paling at the sight of the dangerous looking tags.

"I don't recognize the seal designs but that's not saying much because I cant recognize anything about them at all, these were done by a highly trained seal user no way a genin did this, this is Naruto sensei's work I'm sure of it" Udon said causing the other two to pale even more.

"So what do we do if that's Naruto sensei's seals we wont escape this alive" Moegi said

"No I don't think so Naruto would make it seem impossible to escape meaning we are going to have to set off some of the trap's but other than that I would say we are safe, he wouldn't kill us, gravely injure maybe but never kill... I say we make a run for it and be ready to dodge" Udon said thankful they had left there weights off when they left this morning.

The group ran once they got close enough to a tag it started to glow "Look out!" Moegi called. Several large compressed air balls shot out from the first seal and tore through a near by tree.

The danger hadn't stopped there as they ran and another seal exploded this time a large wall of water shot out. Acting quickly the genin jumped up into a tree but had to escape quickly as there was another seal on the branch.

This seal had sent kunai flying from it and forced the genin to dodge what they could. Udon was able to block them with his sword while Moegi had come out unscathed thanks to her extra dodging lessons. Konohamaru however had several shallow cuts up his arms and legs but was otherwise unharmed.

"I am going to get Nii-san for this just wait and see he will pay" Konohamaru raged while the other two giggled lightly.

After escaping the trap field they had managed to make there way back to there camp and were just planing to rest when there was a loud explosion from the edge of the clearing.

Immediately rushing to check out the problem they found two Kiri ninja trying to release a third from the ninja wire he was wrapped in.

Reacting quickly Konohamaru threw a kunai before running through some hand seals "Kunai Kagebushin no jutsu" he yelled and around thirty kunai appeared around the original.

Seeing the danger the Kiri ninja grabbed there team member and jumped away followed by Moegi and Udon.

Moegi raced in and began exchanging blows in taijutsu with a female member of the group while udon kept the other busy with kunai thrown with exploding tags wrapped around them.

Konohamaru arrived then and joined in allowing Udon to focus his well placed attacks between the two fights, then he had an idea and moved towards the already tied up Kiri ninja. "Alright Stop!" he called out causing both seemingly even fights to halt. "Good now surrender at once or I kill this one" Udon said he voice shaking at the prospect of being forced to kill the tied up Kiri ninja.

"What how do we know you wont just kill us after we surrender" the girl of the group said.

"If you drop your bell's and all gear where you are I will let you leave with your teammate and you still have a chance in this competition, however if you don't and force me to kill your team member you will fail anyway and then you will be out numbered" Udon reasoned while searching the tied up genin and removing all his weapons.

"Fine" the other member said and removed his Kunai holder and threw a bell onto the ground and back away from Konohamaru slowly.

The girl did the same and tossed another bell onto the floor showing that they had two and backed away with her teammate.

At this Udon stepped away from there team mate and collected the bells. "That is the way out between those two trees, there are traps in every other direction, you can go now" he said returning to Konohamaru and Moegi.

"We have 4 bells now we should move it to the tower as fast as we can" Udon whispered getting nods from his fellow genin.

After the Kiri ninja had left the Konohamaru Korps made there way quickly to the tower. Upon arriving there they saw a three hooks hanging up over a old sealed door.

"I guess we place the bells on the hooks" Konohamaru said stating the obvious.

Once the bells were in place there was a loud puff of smoke and Naruto Appeared.

"Hey guys, congratulations your only the second team to arrive, in truth were not expecting too many more so you wont have to worry about preliminary rounds" said Naruto with a smile.

"Nii-san those traps you made cut me up good you will pay for that you know" Konohamaru said causing Naruto to laugh.

"Yeah I may have gone overboard on some of them" he admitted before leading team Ebisu to the chamber's to wait out the final few day's.

(3 Day's Later)

Naruto was standing next to Tsunade with Anko on the other side. Only four teams had passed the second round with two teams from Konoha a team from Iwa and the team from Suna that had Matsuri, Gaara's Apprentice.

"Congratulations on passing the forest of death and I am pleased to announce that as there are only 12 of you left you will all be competing in the finals in One months time. The finals will be held in front of an audience from all over the elemental nations and as such you will be representing your villages, this is not only a chance for you to prove yourself as worthy of the title of chunin but also to promote the strength of your village. Now with that said there will be some minor changes to the selection of who you will be fighting in the finals. In the past we have told you your first opponent a month in advance, this will not be happening this time. You will have your name drawn out at random on the day. You have one month to train from now however you see fit" Tsunade said in an authoritative tone.

Konohamaru wasted little time running to Naruto to ask if he could train him. Naruto sadly had to decline, he had been a proctor was not allowed to show favoritism by training a competitor during the exam period, but he suggested that they all train together with Ebisu but learn some skills on there own as well in private.

Konohamaru was disappointed about that but could understand the reasoning well enough and went to ask Ebisu to train them as a team.

End Chapter!