Chapter 7- Chūnin Selection Exam! Enter the Sand Shinobi!

(Next Morning) (Yugi's POV)

Heba and I got up the next morning early hopping to get restocked on some supplies and maybe get some training in. We didn't know if Yami and Atem had anything planned for today but even if they didn't we still planned to train. I needed to work on Taijutsu and Heba needed to work on Ninjutsu, especially if we were entering the Chūnin Exam.

We were about to round another corner when the sound of a hawk screeching reached my ears. I looked up to it and my eyes widened. "Heba…" My brother stopped and looked over to me and I pointed to a bird.

"It's just a hawk Yugi." He started and I shook my head. "That's not any hawk, piece the time line together. The Chūnin exams are soon, the hawk screeching that summons the Jōnin, there here." My voice quieted down to a whisper as I spoke the last words.

"Who?" Heba asked tilting his head and I swallowed thickly.

"The sand siblings from the Village Hidden in the Sand. Temari, Kankurō and Gaara of the Desert." I answered shivering at the names. Don't get me wrong there good people…. Later in the series. Right now Gaara is a one man killing machine who I do not want to get in the way of.

Heba smiled and shook his head before continuing to walk. "Look as long as we stay out of his way and don't piss him off, we should be fine."

I nodded my head in agreement to that and followed along behind Heba just to end up walking into the very people I was hell bent on avoiding. "So much for that plan." I whispered to Heba as Kankurō grabbed konohamaru by the shirt and lifted him off the ground.

"That hurt you little punk." He spoke and honestly seeing it on TV, how emotionless he was, was not scary, more creepy. Now in person, I was scared. I knew what they were capable of and I was not that confident that I could take them down.

Heba dropped the bags he was holding and I turned to him wide eyed. I grabbed his arm and tried to pull him to a stop. "Heba don't, Sasuke and Gaara handle it."

Heba simply looked to me before glancing back at the scene in irritation. "Mask your Chakra, quickly!" He ordered in a whisper and I gave him a curious look before doing as he said. Closing my eyes and concentrating on my breathing till I could feel my chakra hid itself till it was none existent.

It was another trick we learned from Yami and Atem during our stealth practice, how to mask ones chakra so another couldn't sense them. They had made us practice it so much I could almost call myself a master at it. It clearly worked because the sand shinobi still had their backs to us and didn't even seem to notice we were behind them.

"Stop that, you'll get yelled at later." Temari commanded and Sakura swallowed thickly, trying to get up the courage to speak.

"I'm sorry… I was fooling around."

"Hey stop! Let go of him!" Naruto ordered and I felt the need to bash my head into the fence nearby. I forgot just how stupid he was.

"Let's play with them before the strict one comes around." Kankurō said and I automatically knew he meant Gaara and for once, I wished the man would hurry up and get here.

Heba shook my arm off and scowled at the scene in front of him. I could tell he was getting more and more irritated and impatient at this. "If they could handle it then Konohamaru wouldn't still be in that overly sized puppets hands." He growled out and I looked to him in shock, how did he know that was Kankurō's puppet and not Kankurō himself? Was it Kankurō? I couldn't remember he switched places with his puppets so much.

"LET ME GO!" Konohamaru tried to yell and started kicking at Kankurō but to no avail. He was still only a small kid and couldn't make any damage.

"You're quite lively." Kankurō observed and I shivered, this was where things got bad.

"Bastard." Naruto growled out before taking off in a run at Kankurō. I swallowed thickly and watched as the man just looked at Naruto with a smirk before moving his fingers and wrapping his Chakra around Naruto's left ankle. He lifted the teen into the air like the puppets he controlled and made Naruto fall flat on his back. I knew what Kankurō did because I knew his fighting style, Naruto didn't and he looked at the man like a confused and angry puppy.

"Wha-? What was that?"

He asked and Kankurō smirked. "Leaf Village's Genin are weaker than I thought."

Heba rolled his eyes and looked around. I watched him curiously as he picked up a rock and smirked at me. "Didn't Sasuke throw a rock and hit that puppet idiot in the hand?" I nodded and he smirked even more. "He really is clueless when it comes to his surroundings then isn't he?" With that I watched as Heba turned around and chucked the rock through the air like a Kunai. It flew through the air and smacked Kankurō in the back of the head.

The man gasped and hissed in pain but his hold on Konohamaru never lessened. He turned slowly as did everyone else and he glared at us. "Which one of you punks threw that!?" He yelled and Heba arched a brow at him.

"Wouldn't you like to know? Look, your picking on a kid that is smaller and younger then you, that's just pathetic." Heba growled narrowing his eyes and I shivered in fear. My brother was going to get us killed.

Kankurō narrowed his eyes even more and his grip on Konohamaru tightened. "You're starting to piss me off."

"Oh? Remind me why I should care when you're in our village?" Heba growled his eyes narrowing.

"Why you-"

Smack!

Kankurō gasped and dropped Konohamaru as he gripped his hand in pain and stared down in shock at the rock that smacked him, again. He looked up to the tree as did I and sighed in relief when I saw Sasuke. "That means Gaara is close by." I whispered to Heba but apparently to loud as Tamari stared at me with narrowed eyes.

I shook off the look and ran over to Konohamaru and helped him up before leading him over to where the others were standing.

"What do you think you're doing in someone else's village, you…" Sasuke said more then asked. Heba came over and joined me as Sakura squeal of the man's name made me flinch. Really that girl needs a good smack to the back of the head!

"Another little punk to tick me off." Kankurō scowled his eyes glaring from Heba to Sasuke. I pushed Konohamaru behind me and stood in front of him protectively. He peaked out from around my back to look at the sand siblings and I locked eyes with Heba. "

"Don't do anything stupid." I whispered and he rolled his eyes at me. He clearly wasn't afraid of them and I knew he knew what they could do! I did know however that he liked Gaara, later in the series, but right now as the boy was he scared both Heba and I.

I looked up to the tree as Sasuke turned the rock to dust and continued to glare at Kankurō. "Get lost." He ordered and I flinched again as the girls squealed.

Konohamaru pouted at that and turned to look at Naruto, fake tears pouring down his cheeks. "Naruto your lame!"

I smiled a bit as Naruto gapped at him before kneeling in front of him, stumbling over his words as he tried to cover himself. "S-Stupid I would have quickly taken down that thug to!"

Heba rolled his eyes at them before glaring at Kankurō when the man didn't move nor did his sister. "Hey! You heard him, get lost. This is our village and we won't tolerate you tormenting the villagers. Especially people smaller then you, it's just pathetic."

Kankurō narrowed his eyes at Heba. "You're the kind of smart ass punk I detest the most." He then looked over to Sasuke. "Oi! Come down here you little punk."

"Is that the only insult he knows? It's not even really an insult." Heba mumbled his eyes never leaving Kankurō and I shrugged.

When Kankurō grabbed his puppet and yanked it off of his back I knew we were either going to be in big trouble, or Gaara was going to be here soon. Heba narrowed his eyes and took a protective step forward as Temari started to panic.

"Wait! You aren't thinking of using Crow, are you!?"

"He's here." Heba mumbled and I looked over to the tree, shocked that Heba had noticed him yet his eyes were still on Kankurō. A long sigh of relief left me as I saw Gaara hanging upside down on the tree just next to Sasuke.

"Kankurō, stop that." Gaara's soft voice spoke causing the others to gasp and Sasuke's eyes to widen in shock at the fact that someone was able to sneak up on him.

"You're an embarrassment to our village." He stated making the sand shinobi gasp in shock. It was a cruel statement, but it was true. He was picking on someone smaller than him and really, that was just wretched and didn't say much about the sand village.

"G-Gaara…" Kankurō stuttered and I shook my head knowing it was useless to argue with Gaara, and Kankurō was smart enough not to do that, hopefully.

Gaara simply narrowed his eyes and I shivered in slight fright. "Why do you think we came all the way here to Konoha?"

'Slaughter the village and its Hokage.' I stated in my head but kept my lips sealed.

"L-Listen, Gaara, these guys started it." Kankurō stated and I shook my head. He's wrong on that and arguing with Gaara, was like signing a death sentence.

"Shut up." Gaara ordered and I shivered in fright again. "I'll kill you."

Heba narrowed his eyes and moved to stand in front of me a bit, knowing that when Gaara said that, he really meant it. He would kill Kankurō and maybe not even stop at that.

Kankurō held his hands up as his eyes widening and Temari moved closer to her brother, holding her hands up as well. "I-I was at fault. I'm sorry, I'm really sorry."

Gaara looked over to us and I shivered as his eyes connected with mine before moving to the others. "Excuse him, you guys." He then used the sand to guide him down to the ground next to his siblings. He stood up and spoke in that same monotone voice. "Let's go. We didn't come here to fool around."

They started to leave but Sakura had to be the annoying nosy girl she was and stopped them, running forward. "Wait up!"

"What is it?" Temari asked, not even bothering to turn around.

"Judging by your Hitai-ate your shinobi from the village of the sand, right? The country of the fire and the country of the wind have an alliance, but the treaty prevents ninja from entering each other's counties without permission." She took a step forward and narrowed her eyes. "State your purpose."

"Is she really so stupid?" Heba whispered to me and I shrugged. "She is practically instigating a fight and shouldn't Kakashi had told them about the Chūnin Exams already?"

I narrowed my eyes and tried to remember if it was before or after this that Kakashi told team 7 about the exams. "I don't remember when he tells them."

Heba sighed and looked back to the scene as I did. So far though, everything seemed to be moving the way it did in the show from what I could remember. I had watched this episode so long ago it was hard to remember.

Temari sighed and the sand sibling turned around to face her. "What you're looking for is closer then you think. You don't know anything?" She reached into her pocket and pulled out her ID, holding it up for Sakura to see. "This is a traffic pass. As you guessed were Genins of the Hidden Village of the Sand from the country if the Wind. We came to this village to take the Chūnin Selection Exam."

"Chūnin Selection Exam? What's a Chūnin Selection Exam?" Naruto questioned and Heba sighed.

"You all really must not know." Tamari stated crossing her arms over her chest.

"By taking the exam Naruto you can move up in rank. You're a Genin now but if you take the exam you can advance up to a Chūnin." Heba stated looking over his shoulder to Naruto.

"Really!?" He shouted excitedly and Heba nodded his head. "I should take it then to!"

"Hah." Gaara said before turning and starting to walk away again with his siblings. Just as he did Sasuke jumped down from his place in the tree and stood next to Heba.

"Hey, you there. What's your name?" Sasuke called and Temari turned, looking excited.

"Me?"

"No, the one with the gourd." He stated and Gaara turned to look at him.

"Gaara of the Desert. I am also interested in you and the tan one. What's your names?" He asked and I visibly stiffened. Gaara was only interested in someone if he wanted to fight them, and kill them.

"Sasuke Uchiha."

"Heba Moto."

I watched as my brother, Sasuke and Gaara all just stared at each other for a moment in silence. I looked between them and Gaara just as Naruto grinned and pointed to himself. "Hey, hey, what about me?"

Gaara blinked. "I'm not interested."

I tried to hold in a laugh at that as Gaara and the other sand shinobi turned and took off. Once they were gone I turned to Heba and slapped him on the arm. "What were you thinking intervening like that? I wanted to avoid the ninja of the sand!" I hissed at him and he simply shrugged.

"Someone had to do something Konohamaru was going to be beaten to a pulp."

"Yugi and Heba Moto, right?"

We blinked and turned to Naruto who was looking between the two of us. We hadn't seen him and his team since the day in the forest. We had been trying to stay out of there way so that we didn't interfere with the timeline. So much for that plan.

I nodded my head and Naruto grinned at us. "Thanks for trying to help Konohamaru."

I smiled and nodded my head to him. "Sure no problem, we need to go though so try to stay out of trouble."

Naruto pouted at that and we laughed before walking over to our dropped bags. We picked them off the ground and headed back to the apartment. We put the groceries away before sitting down at the table.

"That went better than I thought it would." Heba mumbled and I started at him.

"Gaara is a lot more scary in person. I mean when I was watching the anime he scared the hell out of me, now he is just petrifying."

Heba shrugged and rolled his neck, cracking it before sighing in relief. "I don't see the big deal. Though we do need to be careful when we're talking with them here, if we have one slip up that lets them know we know what they're planning, they will kill us faster then we can so much as blink."

I nodded in agreement before pulling myself to my feet and motioning to Heba to come with me. "Look we don't know who were going to get paired with in the Chūnin exams, just who were not going to get paired with, so we need to go practice our ninja skills. I don't know about you, but I don't plan on getting the crap beat out of me."

Heba nodded and stood following me out the door and to the training grounds in the forest.