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A few days after the encounter with the sand shinobi team 9 decided to apply for the chunin exams, like all the other nine rookie genin. Nana was pressured by her two teammates to fill out the applications, even though she would do so anyway. If she wanted to stand by Naruto-nii-chan's side, she'll have to progress in the ninja ranks, preferable as high as possible. One day before the chunin exams officially started Moegi was kidnapped by a rain village nin. Naruto, Nana, Konohamaru and Udon saved Moegi from the ninja, even though the ninja ran away from them.

She was waiting in front of the Academy with Naruto and Sasuke, for her team.

"You think it's gonna be hard?" She asked as she bit down on her dango.

"Hmph. I'll beat them all." Naruto said full of confidence while Sasuke was quiet not saying anything.

The only comment she heard from Sasuke was that he wanted to battle the sand genin called Gaara of the Sand. Nana was getting nervous of the upcoming exams, there were genins that finished twice or even four times the number of her missions, meaning that there were people stronger and more trained than her. Seitaro-sensei told them not to worry, that the numbers of missions don't mean anything. Nobuo and Hibachi arrived before Sakura, and they made their way inside the Academy building to the room 301 where they should apply as a team. She was happily munching at her dango as she followed Nobuo and Hibachi up the stair when they suddenly stopped before a crowd. The students were trying to get into the room pass two other ninjas that blocked the entrance.

"Why did we stop?" Nana asked as she tapped Hibachi's shoulder.

"We're here." Nobuo told her instead of Hibachi.

"This is the second floor, aren't we supposed to go up to the third floor. If I remember correctly it's room 301." She whispered between them.

Their eyes grew wide as they looked down the stairs again and looked at each other nodding.

"Nice Nana. We're only on the second floor, maybe this is already a test?" Nobuo whispered back.

They quietly made their way behind the crowd up the stairs to the third floor, where they found the room 301. They passed through the doors at the end of the hall and entered the assigned room 301. As soon as they opened the door they were overflown with a feeling of dread, all other genin looked at them, the tension in the room was thick and they could practically feel the competitiveness in the other participants. Most of the genin seemed stronger than them. Nana grabbed both of her teammates by their shoulders and pushed them forward, snapping them successfully out of whatever they were thinking.

"They are all genin just like we are. Don't let their looks fool you." She said grabbing another dango out of her bag.

It's not like she wasn't nervous, in fact she was shaking out of fear, but the words of their sensei comforted her. Looks weren't everything.

"Huh? Nana-chan." She heard a shy voice from their left side.

Hinata and her team made their way towards them and so were Ino and the others.

"So you guys passed too, huh?" Hibachi asked them getting nods and confirmations out of them.

"Congratulations everyone." Nana said smiling at them biting in her dango.

A few minutes passed and they were joined by her brother and his team and Nana high fived Naruto. It didn't take long for Ino to notice Sasuke and jumping onto his back, making Sakura angry and starting a usual argument between her and Ino. Shikamaru broke them apart asking them, if they were taking the troublesome exam too, making Nana sweat drop as she thought to herself why was he here anyway. While Shikamaru talked to Naruto, Choji came up to Nana trying to pry a dango from her. The only thing he got in response was Nana hugging her bag muttering mine in the process. She wasn't in a dango sharing mood, she was nervous and she needed the dango to stay calm.

There was a tension growing between the rookie genin, but was soon dispelled as a guy named Kabuto stepped in. The arguments between the rookies made the other genin in the room look at them, and as soon as they realized that the rookies converse in a lower tone.

She looked at Kabuto as he pulled out a deck of cards that required his chakra to show the information stored on them. Nana listened carefully to his explanations and some information on some other genins. Every bit of information could help them in the long run, she remembered the information of Rock Lee, Hyuuga Neji and Sabaku no Gaara. Nana went into her thinking mode biting down on the stick left from the dango she ate before, by the information they've just got there is a high chance they will be up against Konoha genin, since the participation number of other countries was far lower than that of Konoha.

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto! I'm not going to lose to any of you! Got that?!" Naruto screamed and Nana bit down on the stick successfully breaking it in half.

Naruto successfully provoked everyone in the room with that statement. Making everyone's mood even broodier, she could feel the atmosphere in the room changing as everyone's eyes locked with the rookie ones. Ino and Sakura broke into an argument again, Nana laughed with her brother despite being afraid for her life just being related to him now, out of nervousness she pulled out another dango too munch on. Looking at the crowd she made eye contact with a set of blue-green eyes that were clashing with the black around them.

'He looks like a racoon now that I think about it' Nana thought to herself as she pointed from him to her dango and signed with her hands he owned her a new one. Gaara narrowed his eyes at her. The staring contest was going on what seems like forever, but was broken when she saw Gaara raise his arm stopping his teammate of pulling the thing on his back off.

Nana's eyes narrowed as she felt someone approaching them quickly.

A guy with spiky, black hair and dark eyes, dressed in a beige shirt with two black stripes down the front. His forehead protector had an attached happuri and he wore a snake patterned scarf around his neck. The guy threw two kunai knives at Kabuto, who successfully dodged it.

The other guy she noticed had bandages covering most of his face, leaving only his left eye uncovered. He was wearing a large poncho with long sleeves, a snake patterned scarf around his neck. Soon he revealed a large amplifier on his right arm as he swung a punch at Kabuto.

Nana saw Kabuto clearly dodge him, then why was he now on the ground vomiting and his glasses shattered. What kind of attack did this guy use? She was going through the possibilities as to what his attack entailed when she heard a puff of smoke in front of the room.

"Quiet down! You punks!" A commanding voice boomed through the room making everyone shift their gaze towards it.

The man had a large, imposing figure, with a rugged head and face covered with old wounds and scars. His head was covered with a bandana and he was dressed in to a grey uniform that was half covered with a black cloak. Behind him nana noticed more shinobi dressed in a similar grey outfit.

"I am the examiner of the first test of the Chunin Selection Exam, Morino Ibiki." He introduced himself.

Aaaaand CUT! See ya tommorow :)