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"Pass," the instructor said when Arashi finished his test. The blond smiled before taking the outstretched Hitai-ite from the Chunnin's hand and tying it around his forehead. His smile grew a little before he bowed to the instructor and ran out of the exam room. He couldn't wait until he could see the fox again. Over the past three years, Kyuubi had become Arashi's best friend, which was normally very unusual since Kyuubi was a demon and Arashi was human. Kyuubi took to his human form for the past year and a half, thinking that it wouldn't scare Arashi anymore. He'll still take fox form every now and then.

"Congratulations everyone," the instructor said when he walked into the room after testing the last person. "Now meet here tomorrow at five o'clock to be put into teams and to meet your senseis. Dismissed!"

Arashi practically bolted out of the building once he was out of the classroom. He was outside the gates and in the forest within a matter of seconds, looking around for his fox friend. "Well there's a little familiar face," a voice spoke before Arashi turned around to see Kyuubi in his human form with a smirk on his face. "Hey, kit. This is a little earlier then usual."

"We got out early," Arashi explained. "Guess what!"

"I give up."

"You didn't even guess!"

"Alright, alright, alright." The fox gave a small hum of thought. "You…grew a brain!" Kyuubi joked, laughing a little. Arashi knew it was a joke, so he just smirked, crossed his arms over his chest, and shook his head. "Alright, I give. What's got you so excited?"

"I passed my Genin Exam!" Arashi cheerfully yelled. "I'm now an official ninja of Konoha!"

"Congratulations. But now you might want to be a little more careful about running off. After all, you're a ninja now. If you run off from your village, you'll be marked as a missing-nin."

"The third knows I'll come back before the end of the day," Arashi pointed out.

"Yeah, sure, he knows that. But everyone else doesn't."

"So do the guards at the gate. They see me pass through every single day. And I come back every single night."

"I give up on you!" Kyuubi exclaimed, throwing his hands into the air in a joking kind of way. "Crazy little kit!"

"I'm not a 'kit' anymore, Kyuubi!" Arashi playfully yelled. "I'm eleven years old and a Genin. I'm not a 'kit'!" He stuck his tongue out for a few seconds, which just made Kyuubi smirk.

"Sure as hell act like a kit," the fox demon replied. "Besides, compared to me, you are a kit. Because I'm over a hundred years old."

"You look twenty-three," the blond pointed out, looking up and down Kyuubi's form. "No way you're a hundred."

"I'm 156 years old, thank you very much. Way much older then you. Besides, I've looked twenty-three for the past…50?...60 years, I think?" He raised an eyebrow in confusion. "You know, I've looked the same for so long, I completely forgot how long I've looked like I'm twenty-three." Arashi snickered. "Not funny, kit."

"Stop calling me kit, Kyuu," Arashi calmly said with a blank face, but his eyes showed that he would do something Kyuubi really hated unless the fox complied.

"Ok, I'll stop!" 'For now,' he added as an afterthought. "So, meet your teammates yet?"

"Not until tomorrow," Arashi replied with a shake of his head. "Wonder who my sensei will be, though."

"If it's someone that annoys you too much, can I come after him and abduct you?" Kyuubi innocently asked. Arashi just stared at the now grinning fox. "Come on. You get annoyed so easily. You always seem calm around me. At least, after you vent out some frustration."

"After I vent out by ranting," Arashi agreed before he sighed quietly, though Kyuubi, with his sensitive hearing, still heard it. "But no one knows that I'm always around a demon. If my team finds out, then my sensei will tell the Hokage and then I'll get in trouble and be forbidden to ever go outside Konoha without someone with me."

"That may stop you, but it won't stop me," Kyuubi stated with a smirk. "I know where you live now."

"Yeah, I know you know," Arashi muttered, sticking his hands in his pockets as he kicked at the dirt. "Hey, Kyuubi?"

"Huh?"

"Demons don't like humans very much, right?"

"Right," Kyuubi nodded.

"Then why do you stay near me? I like having you as a best friend and all. But why?"

The fox demon shrugged. "Grown attached to you, I guess. Not everyday a demon meets a human that shows no fear when facing a demon, especially as powerful as myself, and tending to a wild wounded animal. Though don't try that with others. It would annoy them."

"What did you think?" Arashi asked with a small smile on his face.

"I thought that was fairly amusing."

"What was so amusing about it?"

"Well," Kyuubi began. "First off, a human child is running around in demon territory. Second, child is attacked and saved by another demon, who got injured in the process. And decides to treat the demon that defended him. Third, shows no fear as soon as the child realized that he was speaking to a demon. What's not amusing about that?"

"Kyuubi, you have a weird view on life," the blond commented. Kyuubi just shrugged with a smirk on his face.

(Me: FYI, I don't know the names of Arashi's real teammates, so I'll just add in a character we all know and then a made up one, ok?)

"Team eight is Arashi Kazama, Hiashi Hyuuga, and Amana Yamijai," the teacher at the front spoke, reading off a list in his hands. "Your sensei will be Jiraiya."

As he continued to read off the list, naming teams and senseis, Arashi grumbled slightly. "Great," he silently groaned. "Stuck with the 'Future Hyuuga Head with a large ego'. Man, can this get any worse?" He sighed slightly, ignoring the teacher, who just kept talking. "Hope my sensei isn't some crazy pervert. That would be really annoying."

(Me: …-shifty eyes-)

After a while, the teacher finally finished and sensei after sensei came into the room to call their team and leaving with them. Arashi tilted his head to look out the window for a minute while he and his team waited for their sensei, nearly falling out when he saw familiar orange-red in the concealing green leaves. He could not believe that the fox actually came into Konoha and decided to watch him. Probably seeing if he would get annoyed and then abduct him. Arashi smirked and slowly shook his head. His fox friend was insane sometimes, and rarely denied it.

Why am I here? Spying on Arashi? This is foolish. Really foolish! But I can't really help it. Like I said to him yesterday, I've grown attached. Maybe I'm just here to make sure that no one really bothers him and that the one in charge of his future training won't be some molesting pervert. Yeah, that's why. I'm just being a protective friend. Ha! That was funny. He finally noticed I'm out here and nearly falls out of his chair in surprise. He's going to need to spread senses better then that so no one can sneak up on him. His sensei better teach him that.

'Second to last team to be picked up,' Arashi thought to himself when their sensei finally arrived and called them. 'Maybe this guy won't be as bad as I thought. But what's with those red marks under his eyes?'

"Got a staring problem, Blondie?" Jiraiya asked with a joking smirk on his face as he looked over to the blond.

"No," Arashi replied with an annoyed look. 'Scratch out that thought that made me think he wouldn't be so bad. I don't like being called Blondie. I wonder if Kyuubi is still following me.' The blond turned his head slightly, looking around to see if he can find a sign of Kyuubi still being around. But he didn't see one. Maybe the fox was still around and just not letting anyone see or sense him close by. He looked back towards his sensei, who was still staring at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Looking for something?"

"He always is, sensei," Amana, the girl on the team, answered before Arashi could. She had short dark brown hair that went to her shoulders and blue eyes. "Sometimes it's something he dropped, other times, no one really knows."

"Who asked you?" Arashi spoke, glaring slightly at the girl, who just turned, gave him a small smirk, and turned back to their sensei. "Hey, sensei. What's with those marks under your eyes?"

"None of your business!" Jiraiya replied with a small laugh afterwards. "Anyway, I think we should get to know each other a little bit." Hiashi rolled his eyes. Amana tilted her head to the side. Arashi just groaned slightly as he leaned his head back and rolled his eyes at the same time.

'Kyuu ought to be enjoying this,' Arashi stated in his mind.

'You have no idea, Arashi,' Kyuubi's voice replied in his head.

'I hate it when you do that.'

'At least you didn't jump like you used to.'

'Got used to it, I guess. Doesn't startle me as much.'

'Is that right?'

Arashi didn't reply since his sensei and the other two stopped at the training grounds before sitting down on the grass. "Okay," Jiraiya spoke. "You, girl. You go first."

"Maybe you should go first, sensei, so we know what exactly to say," Amana stated.

"Okay. My name's Jiraiya. I was trained by the Third, along with Tsunade, the best medic-nin around, and a certain someone I will not mention. It's none of your business what I like, but you should know that I hate people who try to give me advice or correct whatever I do. None of your business what my dream is. Now you, girlie."

"My name's Amana Yamijai," the female team member began. "I prefer to use wind jutsus and like hawks. Even have a pet hawk at home. I hate people who complain a lot." Arashi did not miss the glance she sent towards him. "My dream is to be a great teacher to those with animal companions."

'Can I kill her?' Kyuubi asked, sending his thoughts to the blond again. 'For that "I hate people that complain" bit?'

'No,' Arashi replied. 'And who says I complain?'

"Now you, white eyes," Jiraiya urged, looking towards Hiashi.

"Hiashi Hyuuga," 'white eyes' began to speak. "My bloodline limit is the Byakugan. Barely like anything. Hate almost everything. All I want is to get my father, the Head of my Clan, to leave me to do what I wish to do."

'He's okay,' Kyuubi commented.

'Just wants his space,' Arashi added.

"Blondie!" Jiraiya called out. "Your turn!"

"My name is Arashi Kazama!" the blond boy snapped. "I hate people that call me 'Blondie' and perverts. They're annoying as heck since they are so easily distracted. I like foxes, mostly. They may be a bit dangerous, but they're pretty cool once you get used to them and once they get used to you. My dream is to be the greatest ninja ever!"

Jiraiya smirked slightly. "What? You wanna be Hokage someday?" Hiashi asked in a mocking kind of way.

Arashi glared at him. "I've just decided."

"What?"

"I don't like you, Hyuuga," the blond finished before Hiashi returned the glare that Arashi was giving him.

"Good thing we got two mediators, right, Amana?" Jiraiya joked, looking towards the girl, who nodded with a sigh.

"I just wanna - geez!" Arashi continued to seethe. Kyuubi was sitting calmly at the base of a tree, playing with a pebble in his hand, while the boy kept pacing back and forth, continuing his rant. "He thinks he's so important! I just want to strangle him! Beat him black and blue! Then toss him to the other demons of the forest! And run away very fast before they can get to me! And Jiraiya! I saw him peeking into the girls' hot spring when I was on my way here! He's a pervert!"

"The kind that peeks and molest, or the kind that just peeks?" Kyuubi asked in a bored tone.

"I don't know. Why?"

"Because if he is the kind that molest, I am running away with you everyday and training you myself."

"Oh really?"

"Yep!"

"Why is that when I comment on Jiraiya-sensei, you finally say something?" Arashi asked, tilting to the side a little bit with his arms crossed over his chest. Kyuubi just shrugged his shoulders slightly.

"Well, the word 'pervert' kind of got my attention," the fox replied after a few more seconds. "The others, you just keep saying how annoyed you are. But you have to deal with it. They're your teammates now, so set aside differences and any past grudges and work together or your team will never be successful."

"You speak as though through experience," the human pointed out.

"Kind of been through the same thing, only with my siblings."

"Your siblings?" Kyuubi nodded. "Well that's different! Siblings rarely ever get along!"

"True, but still. We've had to put aside grudges and stuff like that when we needed to work together. And we were always successful when we did. The first time, though, we weren't because we were fighting amongst ourselves."

"Thanks for the history lesson and all, Kyuubi, but I don't really get any of this."

The fox demon sighed heavily. "When you go on your first mission with them, you'll understand."

"If we pass that dumb test tomorrow," Arashi muttered.

"Sorry, I had to leave a little bit after the introductions. What test are you talking about?"

"Well, the Genin Exam was to see if we were good enough to make Genin. This test, however, is to prove if we are really Genin material. Jiraiya-sensei said he had to go through it when he was a Genin."

"Huh. Is that so? Well then, all I have to say is good luck. But it might be a test on teamwork. Don't try to take the test by yourself. If it's a challenge that you're going to need the other two on, then take that challenge with them. Not against them."

"Thanks for your wise words," Arashi scoffed, rolling his eyes a little bit.

"Why is it that the older they are, the more cocky they are?" Kyuubi joked.

"It's just the way everyone is while they grow up!" Arashi replied with a smile on his face. Kyuubi laughed along with the blond boy.

Arashi groaned slightly from the hand shaking his shoulder. He cracked an eye opened, seeing a fanged smirk. "Kyuubi?" he groggily said. "What are you doing here?"

"Waking you up," the fox replied. "It's almost time to go meet with your team."

The blonde's eyes snapped open before he looked over to the clock. "Dammit!" he swore.

"Whoa there, little kit. Since when do you swear?"

"Since I discovered that I'm about to be late if I don't hurry up!"

"Alright, alright, alright. I'll be watching how it goes from the trees. Remember the piece of advice I gave you yesterday. It will most likely be a test of teamwork, so don't fight with your team."

"Got it!" Arashi quickly said. "See you later, Kyuu!" he nearly yelled before he bolted out the door.

Kyuubi sighed, slowly shaking his head. "That kit's going to definitely earn a title with speed like that," he muttered to himself.

Me: end of chapter 2! Sorry if it wasn't as long as everyone wanted it to be, but I will try to make the next chapter long! Okay? Plz review!