Chunin Exams

After that whole ordeal my team and I kept doing more d-ranked missions. One day, because of our performance in the land of waves, kakashi-sensei decided to enter us in the chunin exams. I was extremely exited.

While team seven was coming back from a mission sasuke was about to leave when sakura ran after him saying that she'll go with him. Naruko stayed around for the show because she already knew that sakura was gonna end up getting rejected again.

Sasuke stopped and looked at sakura. "So why don't we I-I mean you know let's do something more personal? I mean to improve our teamwork and all" sakura said blushing. "I swear you're just as bad as naruko. Instead of flirting why don't you practice on your jutsu and make the team stronger? Let's face it you're actually worse than naruko" sasuke said then walked off.

Sakura stood there with her head down as the phrase 'you're actually worse than naruko' kept repeating in her head. 'He's right. What have I really done so far on any of our missions? Nothing' sakura thought saddened.

'Wow that was harsh but then again it's sasuke so what did I expect' naruko thought as she sensed something behind her. She turned around to see a poorly designed fake rock. "Ok! Are you trying to make it obvious where you're hidden? There is no such thing as square rocks" naruko said. "You saw threw my disguise again. You're slick boss just what I'd expect from my future bride" the person disguised as a rock said as the rock started to glow.

Three smoke bombs went off. When the smoke cleared up naruko saw three kids, recognizing one of them as konahamaru. She didn't recognize the other two. As the kids were coughing from the smoke, konahamaru said "I think we used a little to much gunpowder you guys." The kids looked at naruko and started to introduce themselves. "I'm moegi, the sassiest kunoichi in preschool" the orange haired girl said. "I love algebra, call me udon" the short brown haired boy said. "And I'm the number one ninja in the village konahamaru. When we're all together we're the konahamaru ninja squad" konahamaru said with all three of them saying the last part together.

Naruko looked unimpressed with her hands behind her head. "I knew it was you konahamaru." Naruko then noticed that they were wearing goggles on their forehead. "Hey why are you three wearing goggles?" Naruko asked.

Konahamaru giggled and said proudly "you used to wear goggles remember? So we're copying you because we want to be as awesome as you. Plus your gonna be my future wife so I have to be." Upon hearing this naruko felt both happy and sad at the same time. This also caused naruko to remember a time when Yuko said the exact same thing to her.

Flashback

Five years ago in the village of light, naruko was coming back from the academy wearing a black shirt, black pants, and black gloves. Naruko was heading home when she heard someone shout "KITTY!" Naruko turned around as Yuko jumped at naruko, pushing her to the ground. Naruko sat up to be greeted by Yuko's smiling face.

"What are you doing?" Naruko asked. "I just wanted to say hi kitty I haven't seen you in a while" Yuko said. "Well if you are going to say hi to someone do it without pushing them to the ground" naruko said. "Ok" Yuko said.

Yuko got off of naruko. As naruko stood up she noticed Yuko wearing the same black gloves as her gloves. "Why are you wearing gloves?" Naruko asked. Yuko giggled and said "you wear gloves all the time so I'm wearing them too because I want to be as great as you nee-chan." Naruko was flattered. It may not seem like much but it meant a whole lot to naruko because it shows her how much she look up to her and care for her. "You're gonna need more than gloves if you wanna be as great as me" naruko said. Yuko nodded her head. Naruko then pulled her in for a hug with a big smile on her face.

Flashback End

Naruko smiled as she couldn't help but say the same thing she told Yuko all those years ago. "You're gonna need more than goggles if you wish to be an awesome ninja like me so… did you three want something?" Naruko asked. Moegi stepped forward and said "you know what we want! Are you busy now?"

"I mean I've got to train and get ready for the chunin exams" naruko said. "What! But you promised that you would play ninja with us today, come on" konahamaru said. 'Ugh that's right. I forgot that I promised to play ninja with them but I need to train to get ready for the chunin exams' naruko thought.

Sakura sighed. "A ninja playing ninja, that is so twisted" sakura said walking towards naruko. Sakura was still a little down from getting rejected by sasuke once again. Naruko looked at sakura and said "hey sakura." 'My ninja skills are worse than her's, unbelievable' sakura thought.

Konahamaru walked over to naruko and asked "naruko who is she? Is she one of your lackeys?" Konahamaru whispered not knowing that sakura overheard his question and got mad when naruko jokingly said "yep." "Naruko!" Sakura walked over to naruko grabbing her by the collar of her jacket. "When the heck did I become your lackey!" Sakura shouted mad.

Naruko grabbed sakura's wrist, tightening her grip and forcing sakura to let go. "Calm down sakura. I was just joking. I know you're mad that sasuke rejected you but don't take your anger out on other people" naruko said. She was technically proving sasuke's point that sakura was worse than naruko making sakura even more mad.

Konahamaru throwing more oil onto the fire said "Hey! Leave my future wife alone! Plus you look weak. Naruko is definitely stronger than you." Sakura look at konahamaru pissed off. "Not only is she stronger but she's also a thousand times prettier than you" konahamaru said looking away with his eyes closed. "Excuse me! What was that brat!" Sakura shouted. "You heard me" konahamaru said looking back a sakura and getting terrified by sakura's mad expression.

"Umm… konahamaru you're gonna have to ran 'cause she's about to murder you" naruko said. Konahamaru ran as fast as he could with sakura running behind him. He was not paying attention to what was in front of him until he crashed into someone, falling on his behind.

In front of him was a blonde haired girl with four pigtails and a guy with his face painted glaring at him. In a blink of an eye the guy lifted konahamaru up by his scarf. This caused naruko to rush forward and yank konahamaru away from the guy as she was glaring at him.

"Looks like we've got a blonde pipsqueak" the guy said. "Who the hell are you calling a pipsqueak you freak!" Naruko shouted. Sakura tried to calm the two down after noticing the strangers headbands.

"Come on kankuro we're leaving" the blonde haired girl said. "I can't just leave without giving them a lesson especially the blonde pipsqueak. She's super annoying" muttered kankuro. "I'd like to see you try asshole" naruko said mad.

Naruko and kankuro glared at each other. Before a fight could break out of nowhere a pebble hit kankuro in the face. They all looked to where the pebble came from. They saw a certain uchiha sitting on a tree branch tossing another pebble up and down in his hand.

"You're a long way from home and you're way out of your league" sasuke said still tossing the pebble. Sakura cheerfully shouted his name while naruko was staring at him not impressed. She's seen better surprise entrances in the village of light. She looked over at sakura and she saw her and moegi gushing over sasuke.

"Tch great another brat" kankuro began to glare at sasuke. "Hey brat why don't you come down here and face me in your girlfriend's place?" Kankuro said. The comment caused sakura to look offended, naruko looked disgusted, and sasuke dropped the pebble he was tossing up and down.

"G-girlfriend!? Like hell naruko isn't sasuke's girlfriend! Over my dead body!" Sakura screamed. "Ugh what makes you think that I'm that bastard's girlfriend? Someone like him isn't my type" naruko said. Before sasuke could think of an insult they heard someone say "kankuro back off…" They turned to see a red haired boy standing upside down on the same tree sasuke was on. "You're an embarrassment to our village" the red head said.

Sakura and naruko were shocked while kankuro and the blonde girl looked scared. Kankuro then said "hey gaara." 'How did he get there? He didn't make a sound only jonin and kakashi level are that smooth' sasuke thought. When he redhead threatened to kill his teammate, he removed himself from the tree.

Before the group could leave they were stopped by sakura who demanded to know why shinobis from a different village were in konoha. They seemed a little surprised at sakura's question. The group said that they were here to enter the chunin exams. Seconds later sasuke jumped down from the tree demanding to know the redhead's name. When the redhead answered he in return demanded to know sasuke's name.

"Sasuke uchiha" sasuke said. Gaara said nothing but when he turned his eyes to a pair of blue ones that seemed to have been staring at him as well. Gaara could tell that the person he was staring at was strong perhaps stronger than sasuke. 'The way this girl is staring at me… I don't like it. I should keep an eye on this girl' gaara thought. For some reason both naruko and gaara felt a connection, a pull towards one another. The two didn't know why. They didn't know how long they were staring at each other which brought forth an awkward silence. The silence was broken when gaara said "you, girl with blond hair and blue eyes, what's your name?" "Naruko uzumaki" naruko said.

Sasuke and sakura noticed how naruko's voice lacked it's usual loudness and confidence. Both sakura and sasuke couldn't help but wonder why naruko was acting strange around the redheaded suna ninja. Gaara nodded his head as the suna trio disappeared from their sights.

"Naruko why were you acting so weird around that guy?" Naruko didn't answer so sakura decided to screw with her a little bit as payback for naruko saying that sakura was her lackey. "Why are you not answering? What did you fall for that redheaded suna ninja?" Sakura jokingly asked. Sasuke slapped sakura upside her head before grabbing the back of naruko's collar and walked off dragging naruko with him. Sakura was holding the part of her head that sasuke smacked. Konahamaru went up to sakura and said "don't even joke about naruko liking someone else cause she's gonna marry me." Sakura didn't pay attention to what konahamaru said.

"What the… sasuke what the heck are you doing?" Naruko asked. "Shut up idiot. We're heading to the training grounds" sasuke said. Sakura watched as sasuke dragged naruko with him feeling aggravated to be the only one left out so she ran to catch up with naruko and sasuke. "Wait up sasuke. I want to train with you as well!" Sakura said.