Ino's pov
It has been 4 months since kakashi gave us the news and since then we have all been training non-stop each of us being pushed to our limits and beyond all learning a new ability that would now be used for today was the chunin exams we all meet up at our normal meeting spot in front of naruto's favorite ramen stand and wait for kakashi
"So naruto you nervous" he nods slightly I just grab his hand and squeeze it tightly
"Don't worry were all nervous" he nods and kisses my cheek kakashi then appears and eye smiles at us
"So team today is the chunin exams as you all well know and it has three stages 1 a written test 2 a running course and 3 A battle between you and a random opponent now the first stage is at the academy report there immediately" we nod and he and we head towards the ninja academy when naruto stops us and looks behind us we look to see a box we continue forward we then look back to see the same box still behind us naruto sighs
"Kid I know its you and your friends come on out" three kids then come out from under the box and smile sheepishly naruto face palms and sighs
"Look kid stop following me I'm not going to train you" the kid grumbles
"Naruto who is this" he goes to speak but is cut off by the kid
"My name is konohamaru and these are my friends" His friends wave
"Ok konohamaru why do you want naruto to train you so bad" the kid smiles
"Well cause we have been watching you guys at the training ground for a while now from a hill nearby and out of all of you he and the black haired kid are the strongest" Sakura cuts him off
"His name is sasuke and if there both strong why don't you ask sasuke to train you" konohamaru looks at sasuke and sasuke glares at him making konohamaru hide behind naruto
"Cause frankly sasuke kind of scares me" sasuke laughs at this as does naruto konohamaru then continues
"Well naruto seems nicer than sasuke and I was hoping he could train me so I could get past the ninja academy when Im old enough to get in cause my grandpa is to old and busy to train me" I nod and look at naruto
"Naruto why won't you train him" he sighs
"For two reasons one I have been busy training and two I can tell that he takes being a ninja to lightly like it's a joke and it's easy" he then glares at konohamaru
"He's not worth my time anyways anyone who treats this job as a joke is a disgrace to the leaf village period" this makes konohamaru begin to cry
"Fine ill leave you alone" he then runs off with his friends
"Naruto don't you think you were a little hard on him" he sighs
"No he needed to hear that the boy needs to learn that this job is no joke" we nod and begin to walk away
"Hey why did his name sound familiar" naruto begins to speak when he is cut off by a scream
"Ahh Help Me" we recognize the voice as konohamaru's and take off towards it naruto faster than all of us we round a corner to find a boy with red paint all over his face with a hood on picking up konohamaru by his neck behind was a girl with blond hair and a giant fan strapped to her back smiling
"Watch were your going you brat" the guy then begins to strangle him we go to help but naruto stops us
"Wait" we stop and wonder why he stopped us when konohamaru spits in the guys face some of it hitting his eyes making him release konohamaru, konohamaru then jumps and kicks the guy in the face sending him to the ground the girl smiles at this and reaches for her fan naruto then disappears and appears in front of her with a kunai to her neck ready to slit her throat smiling
"You move that fan another inch I'll slit your throat open" the girl glares at him but puts the fan away naruto then backs off and pulls the kunai back the other guy then stands up and goes for the konohamaru but naruto stops him
"You really want to attack the hokage's grandson dude" We all gasp and the man stops in his tracks but glares at konohamaru making him run and hide behind me
"Now that all of that is out of the way I think introductions are needed don't you think" everyone nods
"Im naruto and this is my girlfriend ino and my friends sasuke and sakura we are of the leaf" the other ninja nod
"I'm kokoru and this is my sister temari we are of the sand" we nod naruto then looks over at a tree and smiles
"And who's your friend in the tree" they smile and a young boy with a giant gord on his back climes down from the tree and comes forward
"My name is gaara and I am also from the sand now go before I kill you" naruto laughs and walks forward calmly towards the boy named gaara when he is in front of him he sniffs the air
"Ah so the one tailed jinchuriki is here" this makes the boy glare at him naruto is suddenly surrounded by sand
"How do you know of that" naruto smiles
"That's for me to know and for shukaku and you to find out" the sand then goes to engulf naruto but he disappears making gaara gasp
"Nice try dude but im much faster than your sand" naruto then appears next to me and smiles gaara smiles and the three sand ninja walk away
"Wait a minute naruto dude did you say he was a jinchuriki" naruto nods and I nod
"But that is not what worries me what im worried about is why is he hear I can tell already it's not just fro the chunin exams" we all nod at this and think but come up with nothing naruto then kneels down and looks at konohamaru and smiles
"You got guts kid taking on a guy like that it seems as though you have grown from that experience" konohamaru smiles and nods
"I'll train ya kid" konohamaru then jumps up and down in joy making naruto smile
"But you have to do what I say when I say it ok no matter what like if I take you on a mission with me and my team if I tell you to run you run if I tell you to hide you hide ok" konohamaru nods and walks away and we head towards the academy again to take the test
10 min later
We enter and find our seats and wait for the test to start the instructor then states the rules
"Ok this test is 1 hour long at the end there will be a surprise question now if you are caught cheating three times you are disqualified understand" everyone nods and the test start we all finish in a half hour naruto then puts our desks together and pulls out a deck of card we nod and begin to play poker the instructor then comes over
"And what do you think you are doing" naruto puts his cards down
"Playing poker you want to play" the instructor nods after a moment and joins in
30 min later
Naruto and the instructor are the only ones left in the last hand the entire class had finished by now and have joined to watch
"You ready dude" the instructor nods and shows his cards naruto does the same showing the instructor he has lost
"Damn kid your good at this" naruto nods and takes his winnings the instructor then gets up and shakes naruto's hand and walks to he front of the class
"ok now for the final test question now here are the rules you can chose not to take the question but if you do you have to wait till next year but if you fail the question you can never become an chunin am I clear" everyone nods and a good percentage of the class leaves the instructor smiles when people stop leaving
"To the one's that are left you have passed" everyone cheers someone then speaks up
"But what was the question" naruto sighs and answers it for the instructor
"The question was to a test to see if you are willing to take chances and if you are then you have the guts to be a ninja" the kid nods suddenly anko appears next to the instructor and tells everyone to meat her at a training ground we all nod and head out
If only we knew what lay ahead the thing that would change our lives the forest of death