Disclaimer: dont own naruto, but i do own... yea i got nothing.
(Sorry about the delay on this one, it took me a while to put everything into this chapter the way i wanted to.)
(most of this chapter is foreshadowing, not much action, hints at the pairing that will be announced in the next few chapters)
It was here. The day of the first exam. Naruto knew the way the exam would go, after all, being in ANBU and being friends with the first, second and third proctor had its benefits. The first part was a one hour test that would work on information gathering or just being über smart. The second part of the chunin exam was a five day survival exercise, which, because he was rather close friends with the "Crazy Snake Lady" he had agreed to be the the one she would targeted to spread fear in the genin, in exchange for a favor at a later date. The third was a one on one tournament.
"God this is such bullshit!" stated Naruto as he gathered his supplies he figured he would need for the exams.
"At least you won't be stuck in the sensei room with us" said Kakashi who was standing next to Zabuza
"Yea, but at least you two can make money betting on me, I still owe you two for all the training I got" stated Naruto over his shoulder as he filled his pouch with a set of kunai and shuriken.
"Got that right, Gaki! My teachings aren't free! And you better make me proud to call you my student, or I'll have Haku freeze your balls" commented Zabuza, making a crushing motion with his hands
"You got it, I was planing on it anyway, if I show enough skill, I can get promoted to at least special jounin, maybe even get back into ANBU? I sure as hell don't want to stay a genin or even a chunin!" stated Naruto as he finished packing. Naruto was bringing both swords, double what he needed in kunai and shuriken, his sealing equipment, and his camping supplies, though those were in a storage scroll.
"Don't bet on it, the council will want you out in daylight to show the village's strength. I guess they finally got it through their heads that they can't stunt your growth anymore. Plus with the little plan you have for when you make it to the third round, I'm sure that the village will want answers" laughed Kakashi, he was waiting for this day, the day his son/brother/student/best friend would reveille his lineage.
"Heh, it's going to be interesting alright, but one step at a time. I'm going to reveille I'm ANBU first, that should turn a few heads, and it should soften the blow that the villagers hated two of their greatest hero's son" stated Naruto as he pulled the last piece of his old ANBU uniform on, which being about 4 months old, made it a little snug. He wore the standard uniform with his whirlpool headband on his right arm and the leaf headband on his forehead.
"Well, let's get going, got an hour and a half before they close the entrances"
-5 minutes later, Academy-
The fast pace of the day had started early. From the chunin and occasional jonin that were in charge of the first exam to the teams that had arrived early to insure their entry. At the main entrance sat two familiar people, one with hair the color of pink and the other with hair the color of black that strangely resembled a chickens backside. Both waiting for their blonde teammate to arrive.
"Where the hell is Naruto? If he's late I'm going to pound him into the ground" stated Sakura as she cracked her knuckles.
"Maybe if he was in a coma... You know as well as I do that he's above our level" stated Sasuke with some mixed emotions in his voice. He really did like his blonde friend. But he was a mystery to figure out. No one knew how strong he really was, not even Kakashi knew.
"Talking about me again? Should have known you both worship me" said Naruto after silently appearing behind them in a burst of pure speed.
"Shut up, Dobe! An Uchiha worships no one. Though I will begrudgingly admit that I respect you, though not very much" stated everyone's 2nd favorite Uchiha.
Naruto knew exactly how much the respect of an Uchiha was worth. It had taken almost six months to gain the respect of the 3 Uchiha in ANBU, and they were probably the most down to earth of the clan.
"You two ready? Because I know we can rock this thing! Now let's get going, I want to scout the competition" commanded Naruto as he charged into the academy.
"He really is an idiot, isn't he?" asked Sakura as they both sweat dropped.
"Yep, but at least he tries to tone it down. I'm not sure if I could handle that" stated Sasuke with a smirk. Then he fell in line behind his idiot friend.
-2nd floor-
"Wait, Dobe... What's going on over there?" asked Sasuke, motioning at the large crowd at the end of the the hall.
"No clue, but we got time, wanna check it out?" the blonde asked. His teammates both nodded.
"C'mon! Get out of the way! We need to get inside!" yelled a random Iwa genin.
"Were doing you a favor! Kids die in these exams! Now get lost or I'll kick your ass!" yelled the genin
"Lets just go, it's obvious this is the wrong floor, their just weeding out the weaklings" whispered Naruto to his teammates, who both nodded and began to walk off. Only problem was, another group of Konoha nins had overheard their discussion and decided to follow them, though one of their more youthful members decided to try to spread the youth.
"Are you Sasuke Uchiha?" asked a mini Gai that Naruto instantly tried to escape from.
"Yes, this is Sasuke Uchiha. How may I help you?" asked Sasuke in a very monotone voice, obviously trying to make a joke of the green body suit wearing freak, though only Naruto, Sasuke and the other boy from the green clad genin's team picked up on it.
"YOSH! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A SPAR! I WILL SHOW THAT HARD WORK CAN TOPPLE ANY GENIUS!"
Naruto only had one chance to avoid this conflict, and if this kid was anything like Gai, it would only end one way...
"Yelling and fighting inside is very unyouthful!" scolded Naruto in a very Gai like tone.
The results were instantaneous. Lee paled and started ranting about how he would quiet down or do some ridiculous punishment.
"Well that bought us some time, let's go" commanded Sasuke, both Naruto and Sakura just nodded and walked up to the next floor, heading to room 301.
-Room 301-
Naruto and Sasuke lead the way into the room, either trying to show a strong front, or just that Sakura was a little timid, even though her training over the last month and a half had made her one of the strongest in their graduating class, right behind Naruto, Sasuke and Kiba, though Shikamaru was probably in the hunt with his massive I.Q.
"Good to see you all made it" stated a voice behind team 7, the voice of Kakashi Hatake, at his side was the other official sensei of team 7, the infamous Zabuza Momochi, who was getting some dirty looks from all the Kiri Ninjas in the room.
"Yea Brats, good to see you all here, now don't fuck up, or I'll have Haku freeze your balls!" stated Zabuza in his gritty voice, saying it loud enough so everyone in the immediate area to hear.
"Like I would lose to these people, that's a joke" stated Naruto equally loud, Kakashi and Zabuza both caught on to what the young blonde was doing, so they nodded and left, heading to the sensei only room to watch the first two tests on 20 or so television screens.
"Holy shit, you guys are here too? That make the whole rookie nine!" yelled Kiba, running over from his team and team 10.
"Hey Kiba, what's new?" asked Naruto, not really caring for the dog boy.
"Just getting stronger, I can really kick your ass now!" stated Kiba, getting a laugh from Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke.
"Well, you keep thinking that, but in all honesty, Sakura could most likely beat you, let alone me and Naruto" laughed Sasuke, getting a shocked look from everyone but team 7 and Ino, who now knew that Naruto was at some point, an ANBU captain.
"Yea right! The Dobe couldn't beat a stapler!" Laughed Kiba, only to get the same snorting laugh as last time.
"You guys should keep it down, you're attracting everyone's attention" stated a silver haired, purple wearing genin who had a leaf headband.
"So what! Let them look! There isn't a team in this room we can't take! Well, any team that's 'suppose' To be here." stated A knowing Knowing Naruto. "And just what are you doing here, Kabuto? You've failed 6 times"
Naruto had his friends in ANBU look into every single participant, and 6 of the participants there were either not genin, AKA, 2 chunin and even a jonin, or under extreme suspicion.
There was a team from Iwa that had been swapped out with a jonin and two chunin, their apparent target was either Naruto, as it had been reported that his heritage had leaked out, or they were there to weaken enemy nations by killing as many genin teams as possible.
The other 3 were also paired together.
"Ummm, not what I had expected... But seeing as you all are members of the same village as I, I'll help you all out" said the silver haired genin as he reached into his pouch and pulled out a stack of cards. "These are ninja info cards, I have info on most of the participants"
"Sasuke Uchiha, Gaara of the desert, Temari of the desert, annnnd Kabuto" grinned Naruto, he just locked in that he could get more information out of Kabuto and he could check the extensiveness of Kabuto's information.
"And Naruto Uzumaki and Rock Lee" stated Sasuke with the same scary smirk Naruto had.
"Hmm, Sasuke Uchiha, Last of 2 known Uchiha, specializes in Taijutsu and fire ninjutsu, has shown skill in all areas except Kenjutsu, Fuuinjutsu and... Hair style..." started Kabuto, getting a laugh out of Naruto. "12 d ranks, 2 c ranks, 0 b ranks, 1 a rank and no s ranks"
Everyone listening in was on guard, a genin doing an a rank was nothing to laugh at, and being an Uchiha didn't let anyone relax at all.
"Gaara of the desert, no known skills but it says that he's never even been scratched, 8 d ranks, 16 c ranks and 2 b ranks." everyone was stunned, that mission record and not even a scratch?
"H-He was never injured!" yelled Ino, almost all of the rookie nine was surprised, well except Naruto, being a Jinchuuriki and having his incredible healing rate, it was predictable that the one tail would have some sort of ability.
"Temari of the desert, long distance wind user, older sister of Gaara and daughter of the 4th Kazekage. Same missions as Gaara"
"What? You don't have her measurements? Oh well, I'll get them later." stated Naruto in a nonchalant tone, making everyone face vault and 2 attractive blondes in the room blush.
-Jonin sensei room-
The jonin sensei has been watching everything going on in the room, after Naruto made the comment about Temari's measurements, 4 things happened, first, Baki, the sensei of the Suna team, laughed, either because someone had the balls to ask that or the fact that no one had asked that before and Temari had a huge blush.
Second, almost every female in the room began looking for the boys sensei to beat them for making him a pervert, which was answered by the third thing to happen, Kakashi and Zabuza high fiving.
The fourth thing to happen was Baki explaining to the angered females that both Temari and Kankuro had said she had her eyes on that boy and that they had already meet and flirted, getting another high five from Zabuza And Kakashi and calming down the females.
-back in contestant room-
"Kabuto Yakushi, medical and taijutsu, 67 d ranks, 23 c ranks."
"6 times you failed this exam? With that track record I'm surprised that you haven't passed yet" stated Sakura with most of the people listening to the interaction agreeing.
"And now for Rock Lee, huh, no skill in nin or genjutsu, through the roof in taijutsu, 19 d ranks, 4 c ranks"
"Figured as much, he's trained by Gai" stated Naruto with a shrug
"And finally Naruto Uzumaki, Very talented in Wind style, has additional affinity's, though there not listed" started Kabuto as Naruto listened carefully, he was told that there was an information leak and it seemed like Kabuto could be a possible suspect.
"Extremely talented in Taijutsu and ninjutsu, trained under Zabuza Momochi in Kenjutsu. Missions are 12 d ranks, 2 c ranks, 1 b rank, 2 a ranks and 1 s ra-"
Kabuto was cut off as he suddenly found himself pinned up against the wall by a hand clamped around his throat. The speed at which His assailant had moved was impossible to track, even the Iwa Jonin had only scene it because he was focused intently on the blonde when it happened.
The room was tense for a couple of seconds, almost none of the genin had ever seen anyone move that fast, it literally didn't even register in most of the rooms eyes until the silver haired genin was implanted in the wall and a blonde holding the silver haired genin so hard around the throat that blood was seeping out of his fingers.
"Alright maggots! Listen up! My name is Ibiki Morino..." came the booming voice of Ibiki Morino, the lead interrogator of ANBU and the Proctor of the 1st exam. He had just poofed into the room when Naruto had made his move. "Naruto! What are you doing!"
"He's a traitor! He just revealed 2 s ranked secretes and he smells like SNAKE!" shouted Naruto as he drove the poor silvered haired boy even further into the wall and making everyone in the room gawk at the raw power on display from the young blonde.
-Jonin sensei room-
"What the hell! What's going on, how did that brat move that fast? What secrets and what did he mean he smells like snake!" yelled the Iwa teams jonin sensei, though everyone but four people in the room had the same questions.
"Well for one, we made him that fast" stated Kakashi as he motioned to himself and Zabuza.
"We won't have a weak student, and you haven't seen anything, he wasn't even using chakra" stated Zabuza, getting a shocked look from everyone else in the room, even Gai.
"You lie! No genin is that fast!" yelled some jonin from Kumo, he had seen his Raikage move, and to his eyes, there wasn't much difference.
"Surprising from the dead last of his graduation year, huh? You should see his team mates, they were rookie of the year and kunoichi of the year" stated Kakashi in a neutral tone, both he and Zabuza had already taken out their novels and began reading. Everyone on the room was speechless, and all the other senseis wanted to tell their teams to stay the hell away from that team.
-Back in contestants room-
Ibiki was immediately next to the two leaf ninja as he took over the stranglehold of Kabuto. The bear like man threw him by his throat to an ANBU who had appeared in the room just after Naruto turned his fellow ninja basically into wrecking ball. "Put him in a cell and post two guards on him, write him in as an interrogation and execution for revealing two s ranks secrets... And putting a hole in my wall!"
Ok, now everyone was shocked. Not only did a genin move at inhuman speed and strength to pin a member of his own village to the wall, but the same genin basically just ordered the examiner to throw someone in prison and the examiner followed his orders without question. But the most shocking part to everyone was the combination of the killing intent coming from the blonde and the way he spoke, it reminded most of them of their village leaders or at the very least it reminded them of their jounin sensei.
"Well, now that that's done with... GET IN YOUR SEATS!" shouted Ibiki, bringing everyone out of their daze. All the chunin hopefuls quickly made their way to the seats, finding that every spot had a name.
Once everyone was in their spots, Ibiki started the explanations. "Alright maggots, listen up! The first stage is a written test, you start with 10 points, every one you get wrong will cost you one point, every time you get caught cheating you will lose 2. The tenth question will be given orally, you have one hour to complete this assignment, and the test... Starts... NOW!"
Everyone flipped their paper over and began to write... Or a couple began to write, but most just looked at it blankly. The genin who didn't know the answers quickly began to get their answers elsewhere, AKA cheating. But for two people in the room, they noticed something else. Sakura and Sasuke had been having a weird feeling of deja vu, that they had seen Ibiki listen to Naruto before. Then, it hit em like Tsunade punching Jiraiya after catching him peeking. Ibiki was the man from the mission in grass country! Ibiki was the one that was tortured and had his head ravaged by the enemy.
During this time, Naruto was filling in the answers. 'The Distance covered by a kunai in 3 seconds when thrown at 45 feet per second at a 65 degree angle?' Piece of cake for an ANBU. But wait? Sakura and Sasuke were not in ANBU, he checked on his teammates, and thankfully, they were both doing fine. Sakura was smart enough to just answer without cheating, but Sasuke was writing without looking at the paper, then he saw Sasuke's eyes, somehow, in the time he was training his water element and Kenjutsu with Zabuza, Sasuke must have unlocked it, but how?
'Kit! Get in here, I have something to tell you' stated Kyuubi in his mind, it had been a while since they had really talked, so Naruto decided to follow his instructions.
-Mindscape-
"What can I help you with fur ball?" asked Naruto with a cocky grin on his face.
"I'll yell at you for that later. There's two things I think you should know." stated Kyuubi in a half eager, half fearful voice.
"What's got you all riled up?" asked a concerned Naruto, any time the fox got like this, something very good, or very bad happened.
"First, your body can now hold up to 3 full tails worth before the side effects start, this happened during you training with Zabuza. From this point on, you're going to have to train much harder to hold more than 3" stated the great fox, Naruto smiled and nodded, he didn't like using the fox's chakra, but it was a great trump card.
"The second, something very big is going to happen, I feel the dark and negative emotions I felt the night of my attack" stated the fox.
"Madara is here? But why?" asked Naruto. The fox had told him the story behind the attack several times.
"Yes, or at least someone as dark and twisted as he is, that snake bastard comes to mind... Or maybe even... No, it wouldn't be him" stated The Kyuubi, gaining Naruto's attention.
"Who couldn't it be?" he asked
"Don't worry about it. If you ever have the honor of meeting him, I'll tell you" stated Kurama cryptically "Now head out, the test is still going and you could use some time to study your competition"
-35 minutes later, jonin room-
"Smart kids this year, there's been a couple things I've never seen before" stated some random jonin.
"Just wait, the proctor is Ibiki and they still have the last question. This isn't over by a long shot." stated Asuma Sarutobi.
"What's it matter? Who's Ibiki?" Asked Kurenai
"Oh yea, your new... Well, Ibiki is the head of the torture and interrogation department, and the tenth question... Well" stated Kakashi
-test room-
"Alright maggots! Time for the tenth question!" bellowed Ibiki. Only 45 of the 126 teams were left and the biggest mystery of the room was the random spikes of chakra followed by wacky and weird things happening, like people falling off chairs, random yelps from kunoichi in the room, several chunin examiners having marker randomly appear on their face and the icing in the cake, Ibiki's chair collapsed underneath him.
Everyone in both the genin and jonin room perked up, awaiting for the bear like man to tell of the final question.
"The last question is to be pass or fail, but before I explain, you can leave now, or stay for the question. What will it be?" he asked the group of chunin hopefuls.
"Why would we do that? What would be the point of that?" yelled Temari
"Because, if you leave now, you can take the exam next year, but if you stay, and get it wrong, you can never participate in the chunin exams again." Ibiki said with a smirk only Naruto and Anko could replicate.
"WHAT!" was the call of most genin in the room, save the sand team, the jonin and two chunin from Iwa, Naruto and Sasuke
"You can't do that! That silver haired kid took the test 6 times!" yelled a genin from Kumo
"One, he was a traitor. So if you want to be like him, be my guest. Two, my test, my rules! Now shut the hell up and make up your mind! You have two minutes!"
-Jonin room-
"Can he really do that?" asked several jonin senseis
"No, but Ibiki is a master of mind games, hell I play poker with the guy and I almost never win." stated Kakashi as he sharpened a set of kunai "But my little asshole of a student wins enough that I'm not in the poor house, kid almost always finds a way to win"
"You got that right, that little bastard got me a couple of times, I still don't understand how he can read a lie like that, we both wear masks." stated Zabuza who was leaning next to Kakashi sharpening his gains sword.
"So the Uchiha can read people like a book huh? Could have sworn that was a Hyuga thing?" asked Kurenai with a smirk.
Kakashi, Zabuza, Gai and Asuma all looked at each other, then busted out laughing.
"That's a good one, while the Uchiha brat might be good, hell I'll bet he's mid chunin in skill, he's not the one that can read people, and he's years away from even thinking he's the best on the team" laughed Zabuza, getting a chuckle from the other 3 members of the 'we trained Naruto group' though out of the 7 that trained him, only Kakashi and Zabuza ever said it in public.
"What are you talking about? The Uchiha was the top of his class and has the sharingan, who is so strong that you would claim that?" asked Kurenai, not ever thinking about it.
"Easy, the kid who just made Kabuto a near permanent part of the wall"
-test room-
The five minutes were up and there was only 25 teams left. Naruto had reassured his team and teams eight and ten.
"Ok, one last chance!" asked Ibiki, after the question, the room flooded with killer intent and made everyone, including the Iwa shinobi weak kneed.
The source? Naruto. And the message he was sending was clear, for Ibiki to get on with it, who it helped to scare the living crap out of most of the room.
"Ok, everyone that stayed, you... Pass!"
"What!" once again was shouted by half the room.
"As a chunin, you have to make life and death decisions, if you can't do that, you don't deserve to be a ninja!" the bear like man bellowed.
"If that was the test, why the hell did we have to write all that crap down?" asked the idiotic Kiba.
Ibiki just chuckled, he slowly pulled of his bandana to reveal his scared, burnt and punctured head. Everyone in the room but one person either gasped or cringed. That one being the look of sadness and regret.
"This is what the cost of information is, mess it up you die, I was lucky enough to have a guardian angel, you most likely won't" answer the large man. A dead silence hung itch the air before a ball of... Something... Came smashing through the window and did some sort of maneuver mid air. The end result was a very attractive purple headed female standing in front of a banner that read 'The Proctor for the second exam, The very sexy and no longer single, Anko Mitarashi!'
"Alright maggots! Training ground 44 in 10 minutes"
-end of chapter-
(still deciding pairings, so please vote, the pole is up on my profile.)
(Feel free to ask questions, as with must of my chapters in this story, more questions were raised than answered, which i think helps to make a good story.)
(Yes, the Jonin and 2 chunin are there to kill Naruto. There is a traitor in Konoha, and you'll be very surprised with who it is.)
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