Recap: Itachi awakens his sharigan which begins everything. Land of Waves arc happened, Haku and Zabuza died. New bridge and people are happy. My recaps suck.

Chapter 4: Start your engines!

Yet again, it was another beautiful morning. As Itachi got ready and did his daily morning routine, his sensei; Kakashi was at a meeting along with all the other jounin.

Itachi took a look at his portrait of Team seven. The portrait depicted Itachi with his usual expressionless face while Naruto intensely glared at him. Sakura, on the other hand was overly excited, smiling and acting all cute while Kakashi was just Kakashi.

Itachi stared at the calendar. '...the Chūnin exams are soon aren't they? Right after that mission we had?' He slipped on his usual dark gray high neck collar shirt then tied on his forehead protector.

He stepped out of his house and walked over to the meeting place where Team seven was supposed to gather up. Just as Itachi entered their meeting spot, however, only Naruto was there.

As soon as he saw Itachi, Naruto jumped from the tree branch he was sleeping on and approached him. "Hey Itachi, I never got to show you my jutsu!" Naruto slyly said.

"You can do more than just one jutsu?"

"Of course I can, weasel! I can do two!"

Itachi sat himself down on a cold, flat rock. "Can you show me?"

Naruto jumped off the branch he was laying on and stood in front of Itachi. "Ready? Sexy technique!" He yelled.

In an instant, Naruto turned into a tall, sexy woman with giant, bouncy breasts. She bent down and blew Itachi a kiss. "Do you like what you see, Itachi-kun?"

There was a flicker of emotion in Itachi's face. "I am not and never will be attracted to that body, if that's the response you were looking for."

"What?!" Naruto poofed back into his original form. "How could you not like it?! She was so hot and sexy and she had such big plump-"

"CHA!" Sakura came running towards Naruto and pounded him on the head. "And that's what you get, pervert!"

"Ow! Ow! Ow! Sakura-chan!"

"Never do that again!"

Late as usual, Kakashi finally appeared in front of them. "Hello everyone! I thought as a break you could all do some easy missions."

"Yeah like what?" Naruto grumbled.

Kakashi pulled out some dogs. "Walking dogs!"

Day after day, it was always boring D-rank mission after boring D-rank mission along with some failed one-sided romance attempts from Naruto to get Sakura to notice him and even some failed attempts from Sakura to get Itachi to notice her.

XxxxxXxxx

With no mission today, Itachi decided he should take a nice walk for once, it's been a while since he has and being cooped up in his house reading text books wasn't all that exciting. He decided to walk in the alley where it was quiet.

"Konohamaru, stop following me." Itachi said suddenly, even before the slightest of movement.

Konohamaru, apparently camouflaged by a box revealed himself. "Wow handy man! You could tell we were here, even without us even moving!" Konohamaru exclaimed.

Naruto popped from behind the box, he ran towards Itachi, weaving a certain jutsu. "If you can't appreciate my sexy jutsu then try this on for size! REVERSE SEXY TECHNIQUE!"

A tall, naked and sexy man, appeared in front of Itachi. He had spiky wavy hair and gorgeously chiseled abs.

Itachi sighed. "I told you, I will never be attracted to that body."

"Aw come on!" Naruto once again changed back into his original form. "What the hell is gonna turn you on then?!"

"I am not obligated to tell you anything."

"...bastard." Naruto muttered.

"Hey Bro and Itachi!" Two other kids came from behind the box. "These are my friends Udon and Moegi! We wanna become ninja just like you!"

Itachi smiled, this generation was brighter than he thought. "Is that s-" Before he could finish, Moegi started squeezing him.

"Itachi! You're cuter than I imagined!" Moegi squealed.

Naruto stared at Itachi in jealousy. '...Itachi seems to be a magnet for girls.'

"And I've read so much about you." Udon stated, in awe.

Naruto pouted. 'They're ignoring me and giving Itachi all the attention!'

Sakura just happened to be walking by and saw a young girl was hugging Itachi. 'CHA! That girl's gonna get a beat down!' "Hey hands-" Sakura started to say as she ran over to them.

Before she could say anymore, Naruto ran over to Sakura and hugged her. "Sakura-chan! I'm so glad you're here!" He exclaimed.

"Oh I see. I thought miss pink hair would go for Itachi, but I guess Naruto-bro has got some smooth moves." Konohamaru congratulated.

"What?" Sakura asked.

"...oh yeah. She's totally in love with me!"

'Now I get what these clowns are saying!' Sakura pushed Naruto off, before he could run, Sakura punched Naruto in the face sending him flying. "You're next Konohamaru." Sakura hissed, glaring at him like a demon.

"AHHHHHHH! YOU'RE A DEMONNNNN!" Konohamaru screamed as Sakura began chasing him, Sakura stopped dead in her tracks. "Konohamaru, watch where you're-" Too late. Not looking where he was going Konohamaru accidentally ran into a someone.

Konohamaru looked up. This guy, he had never seen him before. "Oh sorry I-"

The shinobi pulled him up by his shirt collar. "Kid, what the hell do you think you're doing?" He barked.

"Kankurō stop, he's just a kid." The girl behind him scolded, she held a large fan behind her back and a forehead protector that signified she was a shinobi as well.

Kankurō grinned and clung the collar tighter. "Heh, I couldn't care less."

"Konohamaru!" Moegi and Udon yelled, tears poured down Moegi's face while snot dribbled down Udon's lips.

Kankurō started to pull back his arm. "Won't this be fu-" Kankurō felt a stabbing pain through his arm, he looked back and saw the quiet kid wearing the dark gray collar had pierced through his flesh with something, he grabbed his arm to stop the blood from dripping. "What the hell did you hit me with?!"

Itachi twirled a blade of grass between his fingers. "Only a blade of grass."

"Oh you wanna play with me?" Kankurō set down the bandaged thing behind his back. "Alright, let's have a little-"

"Kankurō. That's enough."

Third Hokage's office...

"As you may know the Chūnin exams are coming up," Third Hokage announced as he blew smoke from his pipe. "Kurenai Yūhi, Asuma Sarutobi, and Kakashi Hatake, speak up now if you do or do not want to enter your genin into the Chūnin exams."

Asuma spoke up. "Team 8's: Shikamaru Nara, Ino Yamanaka, and Choji Akimichi are all qualified for the Chūnin exams."

Next it was Kurenai. "Team 10's: Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzaka, and Shino Aburame are all qualified for the Chūnin exams."

Finally, Kakashi, Iruka gave a grim look but he ignored it and spoke up anyways. "Team 7's: Naruto Uzumaki, Itachi Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno are all qualified for the Chūnin exams."

"...excuse me!" Iruka interrupted. "But I've taught each and every one of these students, and Naru-I mean everyone is not ready for the exams. They've all just recently became genin."

"Iruka, I can understand how you feel but they are no longer your students. They're ours." Kakashi stated. "And it's our choice whether or whether they are ready."

XxxxxXxxx

Everyone looked up, miraculously, the no-eyebrow shinobi was able to get up there soundless. "We apologize for any trouble."

"What's your name?" Itachi asked.

"My name is Temari." Temari answered.

"I mean the one up in the tree."

"...oh..."

"My name is Garra, what about you?" Garra asked.

"Uchiha Itachi."

Garra glanced at Itachi, his face seemed just as expressionless as his, if not more. 'Impressive, he pierced through Kankurō's skin with only a blade of grass.'

Itachi took a glance at Gaara as well, he already had an idea of his power. 'Gaara, he must be a great sand ninja, getting up the tree like that without making a sound. Impressive.'

Sakura noticed the forehead protectors the group of shinobi wore, they definitely weren't from Konoha. "...You guys are from Sunagakure, aren't you? While it's true Suna is an ally of the leaf, you can't just come in here like that." Sakura pointed out, she stole a glance from Itachi, hoping he would look proud but he looked as stoic as ever.

"That's some very good detective skills you got there." Temari humored her remark and took out her license. "But we do have permission, actually, we've come for the Chūnin exams."

"Ch-chūnin exams?" Naruto asked in confusion.

"The Chūnin exams are a series of selection test to see whether or whether not you'll advance from a genin to a chūnin." Itachi explained.

"Exactly. That's why we're here."

The next day...

Team seven was rounded up once again, not another mission, but rather, a question Kakashi had to ask. Unlike yesterday, it was a chilled windy day signaling fall would be coming up.

"I'm not sure if you know this already, but the Chūnin exams are here...I'll give you all until tomorrow to decide whether or not you would like to part-" Kakashi began explaining.

"Wouldn't miss it for the world! 'Cause that one step closer to becoming-" Naruto cutoff, pumping his fist up.

This time, Kakashi got to cut-off Naruto. "Hokage and that's my dream. We get it, Naruto."

"Believe it." Itachi added.

'This should be interesting. I can only think of what the Jounin exams might be like.' Itachi thought.

"That is all." In a flash, Kakashi left, leaving the team to think of what they could do next.

'But what have I done except for standing around with a kunai in my hand?' Sakura walked home alone. What talents did she even posses? All she could be was a burden.

"...hey Sakura."

Lost in her train of thought she had no idea her biggest love was standing right next to her. "Itachi-kun!" Sakura exclaimed.

He got right to the point. "Sakura. Forget the Chūnin exams." Itachi plainly yet coldly stated.

"Wha-why?"

"You're very weak, Sakura." His tone was so spiteful.

"Itachi...why are you telling me this?" Sakura asked as if the words that spat out of his mouth were just lies.

"Because all you are to me, is a burden to us."

Sakura clenched her fist. "...no. Itachi would never say that!" She reeled back her arm and punched him in the face, sending him flying.

'Itachi' changed back to his original form and started scrambling off.

"That's what I thought! And don't come back! Now I am definitely joining these stupid exams!"

The day after...

'I guess the Chūnin exams begin here!' Naruto ran his fingers through his spiky blonde hair and quickly got dressed. "I'm so pumped for these exams!"

OoO

Sakura flipped out her favorite comb and put it through her long pink hair. 'So the exams are today, huh? I wonder who'll make it?'

OoO

Itachi stared in the mirror, his hair was perfect the way it was; short. 'The exams will certainly bring about disaster.'

OoO

Finally, all of Team seven were in the registration entrance. All of them nodded to each other, Naruto pushed open the door. Today would begin the exams. As soon as they walked in, they were greeted by a ton of ninja spread out across the hall. Naruto looked around the halls in awe. "Woah! This is so awesome!"

"Hey losers!" A guy taunted, seeing another batch of genin had come through the door.

"Will you just stop?!" Another girl yelled.

"You heard her!" Naruto yelled to the bullies. "Stop it already!"

"Oh yeah? What's mister hot-shot gonna do about it?" The bully challenged.

"THIS!" Naruto started running over to them. "I'm gonna show you how much my fists h-" Just as he was nearing in on the two bullies, much to his surprise, they had already fell flat onto the floor without him even lifting a finger. "Huh? What's going on?"

Itachi poked Naruto on the forehead. "Fight another time, Naruto."

He picked the genin up and put them in a small corner by the staircase. "...next time get better disguises." Itachi mumbled under his breath.

Naruto rubbed the spot where Itachi poked him. 'Why did he...poke me?'

"Whoa! That was super awesome, mister!" One of the two victims yelled, he wore a green body suit along with bright orange leg warmers. But the only thing that really stood out were those bushy-bushy eyebrows.

"You're so amaz-" Bushy brows took a look at Sakura and instantly fell in love, forgetting everything he was about to say, he ran up to Sakura with hearts glowing in his eyes. "You! Will you be my girlfriend? My heart burns for you!"

"No way!" Sakura replied. "That's it, we're outta here!" She grabbed Itachi's and Naruto's wrist then dragged them away.

After they left another shinobi came in. His eyes were blank, pupiless. "Let's go." The guy ordered.

"Yeah..." 'That guy...how strong is he?' Bushy brows guy started to stray off. "I'll catch up with you guys...later."

OoO

Finally, Team seven was just one door away from the registration center. Sakura pushed open a giant door to a large room, a training field. Just directly across from it was the door to the registration center.

"My name is Rock Lee! What is yours?" Rock Lee asked, appearing suddenly out of nowhere."

"Uchiha Itachi."

'...Itachi...Itachi' "ITACHI! I challenge you right here and now!" Rock Lee yelled, he jumped down and got in a fighting pose.

"WHY NOT ME?!" Naruto yelled, he ran over to Rock lee and prepared to strike him.

Lee grabbed Naruto's fist. "I didn't challenge you, that's why." He flung Natuto into the nearby wall. "So what do-"

"I accept."

Without warning, Rock Lee ran up ahead and decided to a sweep kick Itachi, easily blocked his kicked with his arm.

Itachi stood back and began to weave hand signs to a new jutsu. "Fire release: Great fireball technique!" He yelled, a monstrous fireball shot out of Itachi's mouth and came directly towards Rock lee.

Just before the jutsu landed, Lee jumped away.

Almost instantly, Itachi felt a slight presence, it was Rock lee, he somehow got behind him. Seeing an opening, Lee raised his leg and smashed his foot into Itachi's back, sending him flying across the room.

Lee appeared once again behind Itachi who was still in a daze from the last attack, using this opportunity, Lee kicked Itachi in the jaw, making Itachi's blood fly across the room.

"ITACHI-KUN! NO!" Sakura screamed as she ran up to Itachi.

"Rock Lee-kun, that was very good." Itachi praised.

The Itachi Lee was fighting suddenly blew up in smoke. It was merely a clone this entire time.

The real Itachi shot out from the ground and jabbed Rock Lee in the stomach, hard. Blood spurted from Lee's mouth as he was sent flying towards the ceiling. As fast as he was up in the air, Lee came crashing down to the ground.

*BAM*

A cloud of dust filled the room as Lee finally made contact with the ground. "Have you had enough, Lee-kun?" Itachi asked.

"NO WAY!" Lee came flying out of the dust, he was fired up more than ever to beat this guy once and for all. Itachi sighed. "Another time, Lee-kun." With one fellow swoop, his hand snatched Lee's leg and threw him across the room.

Despite everything, Lee still got up, this was it, his final move. He started to unravel the bandages around his arms. However, before he could activate his move, a giant tortoise shell came down flying down. Lee stopped immediately and walked over to it.

"Huh? What's that thing?"

"Grrr! Naruto, I thought you were knocked out!" Sakura yelled.

"Yeah I was, but I just woke up."

"Lee! You're not suppose to use forbidden techniques!" The tortoise scolded, he had a forehead protector tied around his neck signifying a certified ninja animal.

"Wait, is that his...sensei?" Naruto slowly asked as he watched Lee talk to the turtle.

*sweat drops* "He's even weirder that I thought." Sakura sighed.

Itachi brushed off some dust particles. 'That has to be a summoning animal, but Lee can't do ninjutsu so how could he...?'

All of a sudden, another guy appeared who looked just like Lee only with a flak jacket and a more chiseled face. Ningame, the tortoise, told the guy of Lee's almost disaster.

The guy nodded. "Is that so?" With a bright and flashy yet cocky smile he punched Lee in the face.

"...did he just..." Sakura started to say even more confused.

"I'm sorry sensei!" Lee cried while a waterfall of tears ran down his eyes.

Might Guy started to cry too as he bent down and hugged Rock Lee. "Lee! You weren't supposed to!"

Even the tortoise started crying along with them making a huge emotional scene. Guy suddenly stood up and flashed another smile. "That's it, Lee! More laps, let's go!" He exclaimed.

Now with fire in his eyes, Lee got pumped up despite crying earlier. "Yeah! Let's do this!"

"And the power of youth prevails!" With those last words the three disappeared to do a hundred or so more laps.

Sakura ran up to Itachi and squeezed him. "Oh Itachi-kun! You beat him! I never doubted you for a second!"

"Perhaps, Rock Lee is more superior than me at taijustu, if he finished that technique I would've I would've had to forfeit." Itachi grimly stated.

"Forefit?!" Naruto asked.

"I would've been forced to go all out on him."

A look of fear spread across Sakura's face. 'All out? Then does that mean that fight they had...that wasn't the best Itachi could do?!'

Itachi smiled. "Well, shall we go on ahead?"

"Yeah let's do it!"

"Of course!"

Opening another door, Kakashi appeared. "So, have all of you made your decision?"

"Oh yeah! Dattebayo!"

Itachi nodded.

"Sakura, how about you?"

"Me too!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Good, good." Kakashi got out his book and began reading. "I just want you all to know that if one of your teammates decided not to enter, none of you could enter. All I wanted to do was make sure that you, Sakura wanted to join without Naruto trying to pander you."

"What me?! Itachi would do it too!" Naruto yelled.

"No, he wouldn't. Well, without further ado..." Kakashi finally opened the door. "You may begin.

XxxxxXxxx

To Team seven's surprise, there were hundreds of genin all there to take the test, some gruff looking, some scary looking. Some of the Sand village, some of the Sound village and some of the Leaf village.

"Heh, I wouldn't think they'd let a billboard brow like you in." A familiar voice scoffed.

Itachi: *This is Ino. Just like Sakura she can be very...difficult to deal with at certain times, but her mind-transfer jutsu, in time, will be just as proficient as her father's.*

"INO-PIG!" Sakura growled, a vein popped out of her forehead as she intensely glared at her rival.

"Guys. Not the time and place."

Naruto: *That lazy guy is Shikamaru. I swear, with his attitude, I don't even know how he gets out of bed every morning. The only thing he isn't lazy about though, is his shadow possession jutsu.*

"Stop being so...troublesome." Shikamaru sighed, with his hands casually in his pockets he looked like he wanted to go back to bed.

"Yeah," Another guy right beside Shikamaru chomped on a couple more potato chips. "you heard Shikmaru!" He enforced.

Itachi: *And here we have Choji. Choji is Shikamaru's best friend and eats every second he gets to build up chakra. On a side note, his expansion jutsu is quite outstanding.*

"What's your deal? All you do is eat!" Naruto grumbled.

"'Cause I'm hungry all the time, duh!"

"Well, well. If it isn't the whirlpool of Konoha's lackluster Team seven?" Kiba said in such an ignorant way.

Naruto: *As annoying as Ino is, Kiba is ten times worse. He's more smug than Itachi if that's even possible, and apparently, his dog counts as a ninja weapon!*

Naruto glared at his smug smirk. "Shut the hell up, Kiba!"

"Heh. Uzumaki, always a card to play aren't you?"

"Hey guys, stop it ok?" Shikamaru cut in.

Kiba's slit pupils looked to Shikamaru. "Oh yeah? Are you gonna whine to me again or is Choji gonna have to get his fat-"

Choji finished his bag of barbecue chips. "What'd you say about me?" He cut off.

Someone shady stepped in between them and blocked Choji's way. "Careful." The guy muttered, shifting his black shades.

Itachi: *This is Shino, he is a master at using his bug type jutsu, although, everyone thinks he's creepy and stoic. Much like me.*

"What're you talking about?" Choji asked, kinda creeped out.

"You almost stepped on it, that bug." Shino pointed out and sure enough a bug crawled by.

"...weird."

"HEY! Don't you dare insult my teammate!" Kiba snapped.

"Kiba," Itachi spoke up this time. "isn't Hinata on your team?"

"Yeah."

"Where is she?"

"Here." A small voice piped up.

Naruto: *So here's Hinata. She's alright I guess, but she's like really quiet and gets super embarrassed every time I even look at her long enough. One time, Itachi told me that "a child born with both Hyuga and Uzumaki blood would likely grow up to become a powerful shinobi", whatever that means.*

"H-hi Naruto." Hinata shyly stammered.

"Oh hi Hinata!"

Hinata started to blush crimson. "H-how are y-yo-" Hinata stammered as her face got redder and redder.

"Naruto stop! You're scaring her!" Kiba yelled.

"Then how come she can stand you!" Naruto snapped back.

"...You shouldn't make so much commotion you know." A guy with a leaf forehead said.

Everyone noticed the cold stares they were getting from the other genin.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked.

"Kabuto Yakushi. All of you...the rookies here at the Chūnin exams probably don't know how this works. "I've collected info and data on most of the genin here and I have a great amount of information."

"Really, is this your first time?" Itachi asked.

"No. I've been here quite awhile." Kabuto sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "Like four years I believe, but because of that, I've obtained these cards." He flipped out a deck of cards.

'There is something unsettling about this person...' "What are these?" Itachi asked.

"Chakra cards. They're blank now..." Kabuto pressurized the card with his chakra. "If you use your chakra to activate it, all the information you need is now available." He showed Itachi the same card but now it had pictures on it.

"And you say you have a card on every shinobi here?"

"Correct."

"Then...could you look up Gaara?"

Kabuto shuffled through his deck and pulled out a blank card. He activated, the card showed a small image of Gaara along with his stats. 'Looks like not much is known about him.' "I wonder, do you have any information about yourself, Kabuto?" Itachi asked.

'...! Why would he ask me to do that?' "Sorry, can't help you there."

"This year's Chūnin exams are extra rough." He sighed as he put his deck away. "And you guys shouldn't be making a bad first impression."

"Yeah well so what?" Naruto turned to genin in the back. "I'm gonna beat every one of you, and ya' better believe it!" Naruto yelled as he pumped up his fist.

A/N: Day 4 of my re-edits! Yes people, these damn edits are taking a full day to complete. It's painful. Chapter 13 at the latest will come out in 2-3 weeks. Anyways, if you are reading this on July 13th, 2015 I'd highly advise you to wait a day or two before reading Chapter 5.

Old news: I did put a poll in

update will be next week at latest!