Before naruko, sakura, and sasuke got to the right floor and went in the room naruko stopped and looked at her teammates. "Ok sasuke and sakura despite everything that has happened, for the rest of the chunin exams we should help each other out and look out for one another. Let's let bygones be bygones. Now let's go out there and show everyone how much stronger and better we've gotten." Naruko said.

Both sakura and sasuke spared her a glance before walking past her. "Hn idiot" sasuke muttered. "Who died and made you leader naruko?" Sakura said. "Hey! I was trying to be serious. Can't you guys just take me seriously this one time?!" Naruko said mad.

Sasuke threw her a smirk and sakura turned around with a smile on her face. "We know everything you said before was right. We're a team and unless we work together we'll fail so don't worry sasuke and I will be there for you when you screw up. After all you are our idiot" sakura said, although what she said sounded more like an insult than anything else but naruko understood the real meaning behind what she said.

Naruko looked over to sasuke and saw in his eyes that that he was going to try working with her and sakura. Even though sasuke can be a big jerk this made naruko happy that sasuke was taking this whole team work thing more seriously. No matter what, naruko would do everything in her power to protect her team.

Naruko knew that the exams are gonna be hard. She heard that people have gotten severely injured and even died during the chunin exams so she's gonna have to go all out if she wants to pass or at least not die 'cause she promised Iruka that she wouldn't die. Iruka always reminded her of an overprotective dad but he also reminded her of Riba because of how much he cared about her.

Team seven made their way into the room as the other people who are attending the chunin exams looked at them. This made naruko feel a little uncomfortable to see how many people were attending. Then out of nowhere they heard someone shout "sasuke!"

Naruko and sakura looked to where the voice came from. They saw Ino running towards sasuke and giving him a hug. "You have no idea of how much I was hoping that you would show up here. I've missed those brooding good looks of yours" ino said.

Sakura got mad and said "hey! You porker. Back off. He's mine!" Ino got off of sasuke and said "miss forehead they let you in. You still got those frown lines on your big billboard brow I see." "Leave my forehead out of it!" Sakura shouted. Ino pulled her bottom eyelid down and stuck her tongue out at her making sakura mad.

"So you guys are here to. What a drag." They looked over to see shikamaru and choji. "Hey shikamaru still a lazy ass I see" naruko jokingly said, walking over to them. Shikamaru smiled and said "naruko you're still loud and rash I see." "Hey naruko long time no see" choji said. "Hi choji" naruko said happily.

"Well well what do you know it looks like the whole gangs back together again" kiba said joining in on the conversation with his team. "You guys too huh? Man everyone's here for this stupid thing" shikamaru said. "Yep here we all are, the nine rookies" kiba laughed. "This is going be fun at least for those of us who are good enough to make the cut right sasuke" kiba said.

"Hey dog-breath, you are in way over your head if you think you're at the same level as sasuke" naruko said pointing her thumb over at sasuke. Everyone except shikamaru missed the arrogant smirk that appeared on sasuke's face when naruko made this statement. "For once I agree with you!" Both sakura and ino shouted.

Kiba began to argue with naruko. Naruko looked away from kiba, putting her hands behind her head and ignored him. Naruko went over to greet shino then hinata went over to naruko and said "n-naru-chan." "Hinata" naruko said then went over to hinata and pulled her into a hug. "It's been so long since we've seen each other, I missed you" Naruko said. Hinata was blushing like crazy with her heart beating fast "I m-missed you too Naru-chan" hinata said.

"I still don't understand how a sweet girl like hinata could befriend an idiot like naruko. Obviously she could of done way better than naruko" ino muttered causing sasuke and sakura to glare at ino mad. Sasuke then walked up behind ino and smacked her on the back of the head hard.

"If you say anything bad about naruko again I'll knock all your teeth out of your annoying head" sasuke threatened and walked away with ino looking at him with tears in her eyes. Sakura was still glaring at her when she said "what does hinata's business gotta do with you ino-pig? Who hinata wants to be friends with isn't your concern." Ino didn't say anything. She was lucky that naruko didn't hear what she said 'cause if she did ino would have gotten her ass kick before the chunin exams even started.

Before the exam started we meet a guy named kabuto and he had these cards called ninja info cards. If he put some chakra into them it tells him information about someone. We learned more about rock lee and gaara because sasuke wanted to know more about them.

A couple minutes later the chunin exams started. We meet the proctor for the first part of the exam, his name was Ibiki. We all picked numbers to determine where we're sitting. I was lucky enough to be seated next to hinata for the first part of the exam which was a written test.

When we got our test I looked at it and I was surprised to see how complicated the questions were. The questions were to complicated for the standard genin to answer. I realized that the purpose of the first part of the exam is to cheat without getting caught.

Although I didn't need to cheat because I knew all the answers. When Ibiki wasn't looking I whispered to hinata that if she wanted I'd let her cheat off my test 'cause she didn't know any of the answers and I did. I didn't want her to fail.

Hinata took me up on my offer. I stated answering the questions and hinata activated her byakugan so she could see what I was writing. I lifted my arm so hinata would have an easier time seeing the answers but we had to be sneaky about it so we don't get disqualified for cheating. Hinata had her head down so the proctor couldn't see that she activated her byakugan and my arm was lifted ever so slightly.

When time was up we all stopped working on our test. Luckily me and hinata managed to finish our test right before time was up and we didn't get caught cheating. When it was time to answer the tenth question we were given the choice to forfeit. If someone forfeits their whole team has to forfeit as well and if we fail to answer the tenth question correctly we are never allowed to take the chunin exams again.

After a couple of teams forfeited, sakura almost forfeited on naruko's behalf but naruko managed to stop sakura and changed her mind. Naruko also encouraged some of the other teams from leaving with what she said. The proctor then said "for those of you remaining there's only one thing left to do and that's for me to tell you… that you've all passed the first exam" Ibiki said.

Everyone was surprised and confused especially sakura who stood up and said "hold on what just happened? What do you mean we passed? Where's the tenth question?" Ibiki chuckled and said "there never was one, not a written one at least. Actually you're decision to stay was the answer to the tenth question." "Wait a second! So the other nine questions you gave us were just a waste of time? Is that what you're saying!" Temari shouted. "No not at all quite the opposite. The first nine questions had an important over writing purpose to test your ability to certainly gather information" Ibiki said. "Oh well that clears up everything" temari said in a sarcastic tone.

"Let me explain. You see my objective was to test you not only as individuals but as a team and how well you function as a part of that team. That's why the test was scored on a team basis as you'd know that everything you did or failed to do would directly affect your teammates. I wanted to see how you'd handle the pressure. The first nine questions on the test were difficult, in fact as you may have realized to difficult for any genin to be expected to solve. I imagined that most of you quickly came to that conclusion that you'd have to cheat if you had any chance at passing. The fact is the test was designed to encourage cheating, it almost demanded it. Of course it would have done you little good unless you had someone to cheat from so I disguised two chunin who already knew the answers and had them sit in with you. Those who were caught at it failed. Better not to cheat then to cheat clumsily. Information, it can be the most valuable weapon in battle. How well you gather intelligence can determine whether the mission is a failure or success. There will be times to risk your life to get it, of course you must always consider the source of your information. Intelligence gathered from an enemy is not necessary accurate. Keep this in mind given the wrong information can be worse than no information at all. It can lead to the death of comrades or the loss of a village. That's why I put you in the position where you had to gather accurate information. Cheat in order to survive and that's why those who weren't good enough at it were lead out leaving the rest of you" Ibiki said.

"Ok but I'm still not getting what the tenth question thing is all about" temari said. "You're not, the tenth question was the main point of the whole exam. Surely you see that." Sakura ask him to explain it anyway. "As I said before the goal was to test you not only as individuals but as part of a squad. The finale question gave you two choices, both difficult. You could choose to play it safe and skip the question although it meant that both you and your teammates would fail or you could try and answer it knowing if you got it wrong you would lose your chance of ever being chunin. It was a no win situation, but just the sort chunin have to face every day. For example, let me give you a hypothetical mission. Steal a document from an enemy stronghold. You have no idea how many ninja the enemy ninja has or how heavy armed they are. Further more, you have reason to believe the enemy is excepting you. You might very well be blindly walking into a trap. Know you have the option of taking a pass on this insane mission of saying my comrades and I rather live to fight another day. Can you choose to avoid danger? No! There will be many missions that will seem almost suicidal if you think about it but they do not think about it. You think only of the goal and achieving it through courage and discipline. These are the qualities required of a chunin squad leader. Those who choose the safest of the two paths, those who's determination falters in the face of danger, those who would put their comrades lives in danger by worrying about their own, those who would save their own neck at the price of sacred honor will never be able to call themselves chunin. At least as long as I'm here. Ws for the rest of you, you have successfully answered the ten questions I gave you. You have earned the right to continue on to the next step. You have passed through the first gate. I here by declare this part of the chunin selection exam completed. There's nothing left but to wish you all good luck" Ibiki said.

Naruko was sitting there with her eyes widened in shock. She was not expecting to hear all that. 'I-I knew that a chunin's job was hard but I wasn't expecting that.' Naruko put her head down 'mom, dad, Jinora you guys are amazing' naruko thought. Then all of a sudden someone came busting into the room with a surprising entrance.

"Heads up boys and girls, this is no time to be celebrating. I'll be your next proctor Anko Mitarashi. You ready for the second test?" Not giving anyone any time to answer "Good then let's go follow me!" Anko shouted.

No one said anything. "You're early again" Ibiki said. 'Great a screaming nut case. She reminds me of naruko' sakura thought. "How many are there?" Anko looked at Ibiki "Ibiki you let all these guys pass. Your test was to easy, you must be getting soft" Anko said. "Or it could be a stronger group a candidates this year" Ibiki said.

Anko looked back at the teams and said "they sure don't look it. Trust me before I'm done with them more than half will be eliminated" Anko said, scaring some people and sending a chill down naruko's spine. "Huh? More then half? Really" sakura said sounding scared. "This is gonna be fun. Alright you maggots have had it easy so far but things are gonna be different starting first thing tomorrow morning. I'll let your squad leaders know where to meet me. Dismissed" Anko said.

We got the rest of the day off. I went to the back hills to train. I went to the back hills to train instead of the training grounds because I wanted to work on my blood jutsus more. I didn't want anyone seeing me using those jutsus. Something bad could happened if someone did. The blood style jutsu is like I already said, it's a powerful jutsu but it's also an ancient, forbidden, and dangerous jutsu. If used to much it can physical injure them, like breaking the user's bones or killing them. The blood jutsu is no doubt the most dangerous jutsu out there. It's a good thing almost no one knows about it.